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found a metal, by them called Bismuto, which is a metal between tin and 

 lead, and yet distinct from them both. 



That Carabaya in Peru contains plenty of the finest gold, as fine as the finest 

 gold of Arabia, it being of the fineness of 23 carats and 3 grains; which though 

 formerly it had only been gathered up in fragments, washed off by rains, yet it 

 is now wrought by following the veins of it under ground. That in the circuit 

 of the Charcas there is such abundance of silver-mines, that they alone, if there 

 were no other in the world, were sufficient to fill it with riches. 



That there are mines of other metals in the same provinces; as of copper, 

 tin, lead, iron, quicksilver, &c. 



There is a second book annexed to the first; on the refining of silver by quick- 

 silver. 



III. The Royal Almanack, &c. by N. Stevenson, one of his Majesty's Gun- 

 ners, London, for l675, in 12mo. 



This' full and ingeniously contrived diary, contains first the true places of the 

 sun, moon, and other planets, with their rising and setting. Secondly, the high 

 water at London-bridge, with rules to serve other places after the new theory of 

 tides. Thirdly, the eclipses ; as also the tables of the sun's rising, moon's 

 southing, moon's rising and setting. Fourthly, the moon's and the other 

 planets appulses to the fixed stars for the meridian of London, by Mr. John 

 riamsteed. 



A Strange Kind of Bleeding in a Little Child. By Mr. Sam. du Gard. 



N° 109, p. 193. 



A child, about a quarter of a year old, at Littleshal, in Shropshire, was taken 

 with a bleeding at the nose and ears, and in the hinder part of the head, which 

 lasted for three days ; at the end of which the nose and ears ceased bleeding; 

 but still blood came, like sweat, from the head. Three days before the death 

 of the child, which happened the sixth day after she began to bleed, the blood 

 came more violently from her head, and streamed out to some distance. She 

 bled also on her shoulders, and at the waist in such quantities, that the linen 

 next her might be wrung it was so wet ; and every day required clean linen. 

 She for three days bled also at the toes, at the bend of her arms, at the joints of 

 her fingers of each hand, and at the fingers' ends; and in such measure, that in 

 a quarter of an hour the mother has caught from the droppings of the fingers, 

 near as much as the hollow of her hand could hold. All the time of this bleed- 

 ing the child never cried very much, but only groaned; though about three weeks 

 before, it had such a violent fit of crying as the mother said she never heard. 

 After the child was dead, there appeared in those places where the blood came, 

 little holes like the prickings of a needle. 



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