Royal Society. 213 
Foffile-wood near York; l^y Dr. Richardfbn. Phil. Tranf. 
N° 228. p. 516. 
AT Toule about 12 miles below Tor/:, near the place, where 
the 2)iin empties itlslf into the Humber^ there are ievcral 
perlbns called Tryers, who, with a long piece of iron, learch in 
the loft and boggy ground for fubterraneous trees ; and by this 
way of trial, they can in a great mcalure dilcover the length and 
thicknefs of thefe trees, and they get a livelihood by it. Some are 
fo large that they are ufed for timber in building houles, which is 
laid to be more durable than oak itlelf, others are fplit into laths, 
others are cut into long chips, and tied up in bundles, and lent 
to the market towns leveral miles off, to light tobacco. The 
bate or texture of this wood is the iame with fir, Iplitting eafily; 
if burnt it emits the lame relinous fmell, and it afibords the lame 
coal ; the branches generally grow in circles, as appears by the 
knots, which eafily leparate from the reft of the wood, as is 
ufual in fir-wood; the Itraitneis and length of thefe trees are alio 
a prefumption, that they muft be luch; there arc alfo oaks found 
there, tho' not in lb great quantity. The vitriolic parts of the 
earth, in which they have lain, hath given them a black tincture 
quite thro', which, when wrought and poliihed fine, is not 
much inferior to ebony; this d©es not emit the lame fmell wheij 
burnt, with that called firewood. 
j4n Infant "with the "Brain depreffed into the boUo'-Jii of the 
fertehra of the Neck 5 by 'Br. Edw. Tyfon. Phil. Tranf. 
N^ 228. p. 553. 
THIS child was alive, but died in the birth, or a little be- 
fore ; it was well grown, all the limbs and body were well 
proportioned, and plump, the face, from the eye-brows only 
was well featured ; the fkull was entirely deprelTed down to the 
Os fpherwides, fo that it had no forehead at all. Dr. Tyfon 
opened the Cranium in leveral places, before he could find any 
brains at all ; but at length he obierved, near the pafiing out of 
the Medulla oblongata to the Medulla fpinalis, a Imall quantity 
of the brain, the -whole might be included in a walnut, it was 
covered over with a bloody matter; but upon thrufting down his 
little finoer thtx)' the Foramen where the Medulla fplnalis^^^.^^^, 
he oblerved a very large cavity in the hollow of the VertebrdO of 
the neck; this large cavity was filled with a fubllance like the 
brain or Medulla fpitialis or both, but far larger than the jMe- 
dulk fpinalis itlelf could be in fo fmall an infant. This made 
him 
