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which continues for lo or iz days 5 and the ufual remedy for if 
is Gibben drank upon Srockari^ or water-gruel ; this Gibben is 
the fat of fea-fowl prel'erved in the ftomach, and it is a fovereign 
remedy for coughs, and green wounds. 
Roman Antiquities about York and Leeds 5 by Mr. Thoresby 
Phil. Tranf. lSi° 234. p. 737. 
MR. thoresby found two entire urns, both of bluifh gray 
clay, but of different forms, with fome of the burnt bones, 
befides two other veffels of red clay ^ the lefTer of them was al- 
moft in the form of the Roman Simpidum, or GuttuSy and by the 
narrownefs of the neck it feemed rather to have been a kind of 
Lachrimatory^ or veflel for fome fort of liquid matter, rather 
than for afhes 5 the other was part of an aquedu<Sl, and turned in 
the form of a Icrew on the infide, with a narrow neck at one end, 
to put into the open of the next 5 and feveral of thefe, each a foot 
long and four inches broad, were found thus placed in the Roman 
burying-place at Tork, by the river fide, without SouthamSar^ 
which, according to the learned Dr. Gaky Signifies burning, in 
the "Britijh language^ and it was doubtlefs the place the Romans 
made ule of for that purpole, as appears by the great number of 
urns, frequently found there, in digging clay for bricks 3 and that 
it continued the place of their lepulture, after the cuftom of 
burning, which was introduced m the tyrannical didatorihip of 
Sylla^ was aboliflied, is evident by a remarkable Hypogdeim 
without any urn therein difcovered in 1596^ it was large enough 
to contain two or three corpfes, and paved with bricks, which 
were nearly two inches thick, and eight in breadth and length • 
on this there was a fecond pavement of the lame Roman bricks to 
cover the feams of the lower, and prevent the working up of ver- 
min 3 but thofe, that covered the vault, were the moft remark- 
able, being about two foot fquare, and of a proportionable thick- 
nefs3 Mr. 'I'boresby difcovered alio a third lort of Roman bricks 
in the ruins of Kirkftal- Abbey ^ two miles from Leeds, which 
come the nighefl thole mentioned by Vitruvius, being 8 inches 
broad, and almoil double the length. 
Szvarms of Beetles in Ireland 5 by 2)r. Tho. Molyncux. Phil. 
Tranf. N** 234. p. 741. 
THESE fvvarms of infe(51:s were firll: obferved in 1(588; 
they appeared on the Ibuth-well coaft of the county of 
Gahvay, being brought thitKer by a S. W. wind, one of the 
common, or rather trade-winds of Ireland j from hence they 
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