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the fish’s’tail, but notbeing able'to 
extract the body, the manwas suf. _ 
Birmingham and Fazeley, £.117 
ri fant 4 35 
foeated very soon after he reaclied 
the boat: The soal (the dimen- 
sions of which were eight inches 
anda half in length, by three and 
a quarter in breadth) was’ found 
with the head near the upper ori- 
fice of the stomach, the teeth being 
fastened into the substance of the 
esophagus, and its’ tail inverted. 
“17th. Two very ‘important philo- 
sophical discoveries have been lately 
made; the one by a Frenchman, 
and the other by an Italian at Bo- 
logna. The first is, ‘the power of 
light to render vitriolic acid alto- 
gether harmless ‘to the human bo-+ 
ay ; insomuch that a man may wash 
his hands in a substance that would 
otherwise reduce them toa cinder, 
with this sole precaution, of setting 
the bason in the rays of the sun. 
The Italian’s discovery consists in 
proving experimentally that animals 
motion depends on electric fire. 
His experiments are of that cruel 
nature, which can only be repeated 
by the hardened anatomist. But 
they are brought to what Lord Ba- 
con. calls the experimentum crucis ; 
for a muscle being cut, and the parts 
_ separated, the motion of the one 
= produces a correspondent mo- 
ion in the other, when a substance 
that is a conductor of the electric 
fluid is interposed: between them ; 
but no such motion is produced 
- whena non- conductor is interposed. 
' 18th. The Gazette of this even- 
ing contains no less than nineteen 
different notices of intended appli- 
cations to Parliament, for leave to 
.make or extend cuts or canals in 
_ different parts of the kingdom. 
- The following premiums have 
. been given for single shares in those 
navigation schemes ‘for which an 
ANNUAL REGYPSTER, 1702. 
act of parliament has been ob- 
tained. wand 
Stourbridge 
ME ia tr! 4 Hee en 55 
Grand Trunk. ............ 350 
RE ee ee ee ee eee 
Leicestér?, S29e 22, Ye 155 
Worcester)! 82,786 a! age ss 90 
20th. The magistrates of Car- 
marthenshire have provided for each 
hundred and commote in the coun- 
try, a metal ‘standard bushel; and 
have published their resolution to 
prosecute, withthe utmost rigour 
of the law, all persons who shall buy 
and sell corn by any other measure 
than the Winchester bushel. 
Of the astonishing increase of 
business in the Bank of England, 
the best idea may be formed from 
considering the increase of its ser- 
vants, which now’ amount to more 
than four hundred. a 
~ 92d, A commercial house of the 
first consequence in‘ Calcutta has 
fitted up and sent two vessels, under 
the command of Captain Barclay, 
to open a trade with the natives of 
the north and: west coasts of Ame- 
rica. Capt. Barclay has directions 
not to confine himself ‘to the pur- 
chase of furs, or the produce of 
Nootka Sound, but to make a care- 
ful survey of the wholé coast, from 
the twentieth degree of north lati- 
tude to the Northern Archipelago 
and Kamschatka, in order that fac- 
tories may be established in the 
most convenient situations, agreea- 
bly to the Jate convention with 
Spain. 
24th. At two o’clock on Satur- 
day morning, a dreadful fire broke~ 
out in Riding-house-lane, Mary- 
bone, which destroyed four houses. 
Two children, from the rapidity of 
the flames, were burnt in a garret. . 
° “The 
