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from the peritoneum ? This question obliged us to slit the cava at the place of 

 the emulgent ; and then blowing into the ductus thoracicus, we saw that the 

 wind which had swelled the emulgent did escape at the opening just now made 

 in the cava. 



This experiment made us judge there was a communication of the ductus 

 thoracicus with the left kidney, or at least with the emulgent vein, in the body 

 of this woman.* 



A Description of several Kinds of Granaries, as those of London, of 

 Dantzick, and in Muscovy, N" 25, p. 4,64:. 



These granaries were at the Bridgehouse, Southwark, where by frequent 

 turning, airing and drying, corn has sometimes been preserved for 32 years. 



Dr. Pell mentioned, at a meeting of the Royal Society, that they keep corn 

 at Zurich in Helvetia 80 years. 



As for the granaries of Dantzick and Moscovy, some observing merchants 

 and travellers give this short account of them. 



First, That those of Dantzick are generally seven stories high, some nine 

 stories ; having each of them a funnel, to let the corn run down from one 

 floor to another; thereby chiefly saving the labour and charges of carrying it 

 down. And then that those in that town are quite surrounded with water, 

 whereby the ships have the conveniency of lying close to them, to take in their 

 lading. No houses suffered to be built near them, to be thereby secured from 

 the casualties of fire. 



Secondly, That those of Muscovy are made under ground, by digging a deep 

 pit of almost the figure of a sugar loaf, broad below and narrow at the top ; the 

 sides well plastered round about, and the top very closely covered with stone. 

 The people of that country are so very careful to have the corn well dried, be- 

 fore they put it into those subterraneous granaries, that when the weather of 

 that northern climate serves not to dry it sufliciently, they heat their barns by 

 means of great ovens, and thereby very well drying their corn, supply the de - 

 ficiency of their short summer. 



Inqidries for Hungary, Transylvania, Egypt, and Guinea, 



N" 25, p. 467, ^c. 

 These inquiries are too long and not sufliciently interesting to be inserted. 



* It is unnecessary to notice the other experiments made by M. Pecquet upon the body of tlais 

 woman, for the purpose of proving the above stated communication of the thoracic duct with the 

 emulgent vein ; since, as Dr. Needham has remarked in a subsequent volume of tlie Transactions, 

 j(Vol. vii. No. 85) this supposed discovery was merely a lusus natum. 



