483 Antiquities. — Uncommon D'l/ia/t; ^c. 



Dr. Olbcrs's planet has, we underlland, been feeii in Eng'- 

 land by Mr. Stephen Lew, of Hackney, and Mr. Aubert, of 

 Highb'.iry, who both agree that it has a greater refemblance 

 to the old planets tbaii Ceres Ferdinaiidea. 



ANTiaUITIES. 



A fuperb ftatue of Achilles, nine Koman palms drtd a half 

 in height, arid in pcrfeel prefervatiun, has been latelv dug 

 lip in the environs of Oliea. The hero holds a metal lance 

 in his riglit hand and the farazonium (fword) in the left: 

 the helmet, which covers his head, has a large plume fimilar 

 to that of the celebrated llatue of the Villa Borghci'e, which 

 is not of fo excellent workmanfliip. This production, the 

 work of one of the beft fculptors Greece ever produced, is not 

 infcribed with the name of the artirt. The infcription rotiva 

 Marti, engraved on one of the legs, proves that it was confe- 

 crated to the god of war. 



UNCOMMON DISEASE. 



The thigh of a woman, who lately died in Geneva, has 

 been fent to the Medical Society of that city, as exhibiting 

 a very extraordinary phoenomenon. It is ftuck quite full of 

 fmall thorns, which the woman, it appears, had been in 

 the habit of fwallowing, and which gradually making their 

 way through the intellinal canal and the blood-vcll'els, ulti- 

 mately lodged in the femoral mufcles. C. Albert is appointed 

 to draw up a report upon the circumftanccs of this lingular 

 cafe. 



A cafe fomewhat fimilar occurred fome years ago in the 

 infirmary at Nottingham. A woman was admitted as a pa- 

 tient, from one of whole breafis a number of pins were dif- 

 charged with excrucjating pain ; and the difeafe was by her 

 ignorant neighbours afcribed to the efl'cfts of witchcraft. 

 The brealt was obliged to be cut oft", and the woman reco- 

 vered perfectly ; but, (trange to tell, inllead of being cured of 

 a habit of puuing pins in her rnouth when undrelfing, and 

 with which {lie often went to fleep, in fome tin)e after, fhe 

 returned to the infirmarv, and was obliged to lofe the other 

 breaft. We do not rccolleft whether fhe recovered after this 

 feccrtid operation. 



VOLCANIC ERUPTION. 



By letters from Banda, one of the Spice iflands, intelli- 

 gence has been received at the Hague of a dreadful cxplofion 

 of the burning mountain in that iiland. For fome lime be- 

 fore, the air had been humid, accompanied by fubtcrranean 

 noifes ; but fo violent an explofion has not been known for 

 many years. All ihe plantations were entirely devaftated ; a 

 great many inhabitants loll their lives, and the country, to 

 the extent of feveral miles, was as inundated by the lava. 



