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stones an origin still more extraordinary, suppose them 

 to be projected from the moon. Admitting that bodies 

 can be projected beyond the sphere of the moon's at- 

 traction, they must move round the earth in one of the 

 conic sections, and all the difficulties attending the pre- 

 ceding hypothesis embarrass this. The subject must 

 be acknowledged to be involved in much obscurity, and 

 the phenomenon, till we are possessed of more facts and 

 better observations, must be considered inexplicable. 



VIII. Some Account of the Success of the Plant called 

 Jestis-iveed, in curing the Disease induced by the Bites 

 of the Rattle- Snake, and other Venomous Serpents. 

 Communicated to the Editor, by Mr. Haynes- 

 worth. 



Case 1. A BLACK man, a servant of the Rev. 

 B. G., being sent to the house of Mr. J. S. for a scythe 

 (an instrument used in cutting Indigo- weed), late in the 

 evening, stayed there all night. Very early the next 

 morning, at the dawn of day, he got up and went to the 

 door of the Negro-house in which he slept, where he 

 was bitten, just above the ancle, by a Rattle-Snake, with 

 five rattles. Mr. S. was immediately called, and found 

 the fellow lying on the floor, groaning with pain, and 

 very much swelled. Nothing was done for him till Mr. 

 G., his master, arrived, a little after sun-rise. At this 

 time, he was swelled prodigiously ; his eyes appeared rea- 

 dy to start out of his head, and it was with the great- 

 est difficulty that he breathed, or swallowed any thing. 

 The decoction of the plant called Jestis-weed, made by 

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