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After this we find in Thucydides, that in the 76th Olympiad, which is about 

 476 before Christ, there was another fire, and about 50 years after that another. 

 Then in the time of the Roman consuls there happened four eruptions of ^tna, 

 recorded by Diodorus Siculus and Polybius. The next was in the time of Julius 

 Caesar, related by the said Diodorus to have been so fierce, that the sea about 

 Lipara, an island near Sicily, by its fervent heat burnt the ships, and killed all 

 fishes thereabout. Another we read of in the reign of Caligula, about 40 years 

 after Christ, which was so dreadful, that it made that emperor, being then in 

 Sicily, to fly for it. About the martyrdom of the Romish St. Agatha it burned 

 again very fiercely. Again it burnt A. C. 812, in the reign of Charlemagne. 

 And from the year II60 to 1669, all Sicily was shaken with many terrible 

 earthquakes ; the eruptions of the mountain destroyed a vast tract of inhabited 

 land round about it, and reached as far as Catania; the cathedral of which it de- 

 stroyed, and the religious men living in it. Again, in the year 1284 there hap- 

 pened another terrible fire about the time of the death of Charles king of Sicily 

 and Arragon. 



An. 1329, until 1333, there was another. An. 1408 another. 



An. 1444 another, which lasted till 1447. 



An. 1536 another, which lasted a year. 



An. 1633 another, continuing several years. 



An. 1650 it burnt on the north-east side, and vomited so much fire, that by 

 the fiery torrents caused thereby, great devastation was made, as Kircher re- 

 lates in his Mundus subterraneus. 



The same author being in Sicily, observes, that the people of Catania, dig- 

 ging for pumice-stones, find at the depth of 100 palmes, which is about 68 feet, 

 streets paved with marble, and many footsteps of antiquity ; an argument that 

 towns have stood there in former ages, which have been overwhelmed by the 

 matter cast out of this mountain. They have also found several bridges of 

 pumice-stones, doubtless made by the flux of the fiery ton-ents, the earth being 

 very much raised since. 



An Account of a Woman having a Double Matrix :* Translated by the 

 Editor (Mr. Oldenburg, J from the Fixnch Account lately pub- 

 lished at Paris, by M. Vassal. iVM8, p. 969. 

 This figure (see plate 8, fig. 5.) represents the two matrixes, found Ja- 



* This (as Mr. Oldenburg has remarked) is not an instance of a double ratatrixj Tjut a case of tuba- 

 rian conception. What the French anatomist mistook for a second uterus was the Fallopian tube 

 dilated by the foetus lodged in itj and what he fancifully termed vasa ejaculatoria were ligaments and 

 blood vessels. The testiculi are the ovaria. 



