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the i4tli; and the nth day from the change is a ftri£l faft, 
called Jaka 'Dafee, or Taka 2)(^fee -^ fo likewile the 8th day 
from the t'uU-moon and the 14th are days of devotion, and the 
nth a Taka 'Defee-^ befides thefe, they have throughout the 
year feveral feftival days. Upon the death of any perlon, the 
next of kin, efpecially a husband for a wife, a father for a 
child and vice vcrfay as alfo a brother for a brother or fifler 
deceafed, do mourn 1 5 days, during which time they eat nothing 
but rice and water, and eat neither ^Betle^ nor mark their fore- 
heads 5 but ufe feveral wafliings and variety of other ceremonies, 
as carrying vid:uals to garden?, groves, and tanques, to diftribute 
to the poor, and make feveral prayers that God would grant ^e 
deceafed a good place in the other world, forgive him his fins, 
be favourable to him, ^c. and upon the i(Jth day they make a 
feaft, according as they are able, for all their friends and rela- 
tions, and thole of the fame coaft, likewife yearly, upon the day 
of his death, they give alms, i. e. vi(5luals, as they are able, to 
more or lefs poor, with whom they make prayers for the deceafed. 
^^e Motion of the Stomach and Guts 5 by 2)r. Chr. Pitt. 
Phil. Tranf. N° 245. p. 278. 
IN the diffe^lion of a dog, the doclor obferved that the periftal- 
tic motion of the guts was continued throughout the llomach 5 
the pylorus, that ufually appears after opening the dog, as nigh 
as the diaphragm, being in every waving motion, brought below 
the very bottom of the ftomach ; the do(^or could manifeftly ob- 
ierve a conftriclion in the middle of the ftomach, at every motion 
downwards, pafling thro' it in luch a manner as to be able to com- 
prels what was contained in its cavity 5 and thefe motions were as 
regular and orderly as ever he law them in the guts : He obferved 
the fame motion in two or three others, whence one may lafely 
conclude that it holds true in all: The motion of the ftomach 
being performed in this manner, may give us a clear account of the 
quicknefs of the diftribution of the nourifhment, the meat being 
no iboner opened by the fpittle and liquor that we take in, than 
it has a free motion by the 'Pylorus into the inteftines, which 
is alraoft in a full ftream, from this compreffion in the middle of 
the ftomach. 
Vegetable Salts e^tra^ied-, by S. Fr. Redi.jtfhiL Tranf N° 243. 
p. 281. ^^ 
BURN any Ibrt of herb, flower, fruit, wood, or whatever it 
be, and make afhes thereof^ with the afhes and with pure 
water in its natural temper, make the lee, which afterwards 
ftraii. 
