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which put out the coals that were in contact with it, to which the salamander re • 

 tired immediately, putting them out again in the same manner as soon as they re- 

 kindled, and by this means saving himself from the force of the fire for the 

 space of two hours. The gentleman was then unwilling to hazard the creature 

 any further : That afteru'ards it lived nine months : That he had kept it ele- 

 ven months without any other food besides what it took by licking the earth 

 on which it moved, and on which it had been brought out of the Indies; which 

 at first was covered with a thick moisture, but being dried afterward, the urine 

 of the animal served to moisten the same. After the eleven months, the owner 

 having a mind to try how the animal would do upon Italian earth, it died three 

 days after the earth had been changed.* 



A Relation of an uncommon Accident in two aged Persons. 

 By Mr. Colpresse. N" 21, p. 380. 

 The first of these relations sets forth that the Rev. Mr. Jos. Shute of Devon- 

 shire, when at the age of 81, cut a new tooth, viz. the third grinder in the 

 upper jaw. The second relation states, that Maria Stert of the same county, 

 aged 75, about the 40th year of her age lost three of her upper incisores or 

 cutters, the other drawn out, and so remained toothless as to them for about 

 25 years ; when she perceived that a new tooth came forth (without any pain) 

 next the canini of the left cheek. And about two years after, another tooth 

 grew out likewise without pain, close by the former: The first whereof never 

 came to above half the length of her former cutters, the latter scarce breaking 

 the skin. They both however proved serviceable till about six weeks since, when, 

 as she was eating no hard, crusty or solid food, that tooth which came out first 

 fell into her mouth, though she had not perceived it to be loose before, nor had 

 suffered any pain from it. It had not a fang like other cutting teeth (incisores) 

 but much less and shorter. The other abides firm and serviceable. 



An Account of two Booh. N° 21, p. 381. 

 I. Ismaelis Bullialdi-}- ad Astronomos Monita duo : Primum, de Stella Nova, 



* The salamander (iMcata Salamandra. Lin.) is a native of many parts of Europe, and is a 

 moderately large lizard, of a black colour, with deep yellow spots and patches : it delights in damp, 

 shady places, and is naturally provided with a whitish fluid, exsuding through the numerous and large 

 pores of its skinj and which it sometimes even discharges to some little distance around it : in conse- 

 quence of this it is not so immediately affected by the force of fire as an animal of a drier nature would 

 be, but remains like the snail and many otiier creatures, unscorched for a small space of time. 

 Whether the Indian salamander here mentioned was the same species or not, it is impossible to 

 determine. 



f Israael BuUiald, the author of this book was bom at Laon^ in the Isle of France, in l605, and 



