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last, about three months afterwards, having taken a quantity of oil, 
he felt the knives (as he expressed) it ** dropping down his bowels ;’” 
after which, though he does not mention their being actually dis- 
charged, he became easier, and continued so till the 4th of June fol- 
lowing (1806), when he vomited one side of the handle of a knife, 
which was recognized by one of the crew to whom it had belonged. 
In the month of November of the same year, he passed several frag- 
ments of knives, and some more in February 1807. In June of the 
same year, he was discharged from his ship as incurable; immediately 
after which, he came to London, where he became a patient of Dr. 
Babington, in Guy’s hospital. He was discharged after a few days, 
his story appearing altogether incredible, but was re-admitted by the 
same physician, in the month of August, his health during this period 
having evidently become much worse. It was probably at this time 
that the unfortunate sufferer wrote his narrative, which terminates at 
his second admission into the hospital. I find, however, by the hos- 
pital records, that, on the 28th of October he was discharged in an 
improved state ; and he did not appear again at the hospital till Sep- 
tember 1808, that is, after an interval of nearly a year since his for- 
mer application. He now became a patient of Dr. Curry, under 
whose care he remained, gradually and miserably sinking under his 
sufferings, till March 1809, when he died, in a state of extreme ema- 
ciation. 
VII. New Analyses of the Amphibolic Minerals; by P. A. de Bonsdorff. 
1. Grammatite, from a quarry of primitive limestone at Gullsjé in 
Wermeland. Crystallized without secondary facets, the obtuse angle 
measuring 124° 33’; colourless. Fuses readily before the blowpipe 
with a strong ebullitiun. 
2. Grammatite from Fahlun. Forming tetragonal prisms imbedded 
in tale ; colour honey-yellow, harder than the amphiboles, and, in ge- 
neral, giving sparks with steel. More difficultly fusible before the 
blowpipe than the other mineralshere described, but witha considerable 
ebullition. 
3. Vitreous Actinote from the iron mines of Taberg, in Wermeland ; 
accompanied with oxidulous iron ore, green foliated talc, and a little 
caleareous spar. Scopiform, straight or curved; and passes by an 
insensible transition from green rays of a considerable size to very fine 
white fibres, having perfectly the aspect of asbest; it is very brittle, 
and has avery strong vitreous lustre. The deeply striated surfaces 
of the crystals do not permit an exact determination of the angles. 
Before the blowpipe, it presents, in the exterior flame, little shining 
bubbles, accompanied with a kind of phosphorescence : in the interior 
flame it melts with difficulty into an opaque glass. 
4, Asbest of Tarentaise in Savoy. White, flexible, and elastic. In 
the exterior flame of the blowpipe, it presents a great quantity of in- 
candescent bubbles; but in the interior it melts tranquilly. 
5. Bright grey grammatite, in tetragonal prisms, imbedded in car- 
bonate of lime, from Aker in Sudermanland ; accompanied by spinel, 
mica, and compact paranthine ; colour bright grey, tinged with red ; 
translucid. Obtuse angle 124° 34’.. Before the blowpipe, in the ex- 
and the close coincidence between Dr, Lara's statement and the account of the patient 
himself, forms a chain of evidence of the most perfect and conclusive kind. 
