The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Dawson, Major ( - )
Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...References in Documents:
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blances of Fruits have made me swerve. Ichthyospondylus clepsydratus,
one of white Stone resembling a Joint of the
Back-boneof a
Fish.
Anthracinus, but from the
Form is called the
Fairy-hower-glass.
blewish
Spineand
Ribsof a Fish perfectly impress'd up
on it: Twas found in a River in
Daw
son.
son
are both hollow like a Mold, but here is
protuberant, and having the very Bones themselves, eleven on either
Side.
very curious, little more than an Inch long.Spina dorsalis
I know not where else to place what relates to the Members of other
Animals, and some to the Parts of Humane Bodies.
hath the fancied Resemblance of a (deformed) Face, with a Cavity
on each Side for the Ears; it is a blewish Stone:
bright shining Yellow, doth better correspond with that of a
Kidney;
Testicles; given me by
Plot
i)
i)
Nat. Hist.
pag. 127
same Table VII. Fig. 8. he represents a Sort of
quiteToad-stone
different from the
Bufonitesbefore-mentioned, being a reddish Liver-
coloured real Stone, convex above, and concave below: This here
is 2 ½ Inches round, and of the dark Red.
lour from the
Tees.
a
from the Tower for coining ofDye
brass pennys, w
nprivate
Liberty of inserting their names upon the
Currant moneys.
r. James Dawson