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Next morning, April 26, I saw it more remote from his limb, and by the 

 observations then made, at 8 in the morning, determined its longitude from the 

 sun's axis 66^° and its declination from the solar equator 9° 24' south. Whence, 

 supposing the revolution of any point of the sun, to the same fixed star, to be 

 performed in 25 days 6 hours, the angle of his equator and our ecliptic 7 de- 

 grees, and the longitude of his northern pole rt^ l6°, I designed the line of its 

 way or trace over the sun, and the points in it where the spot would appear 

 every morning after, at the same hour, till its egress on the 8th of May, which 

 I found altogether confirmed by such observations as I made till then; so that I 

 had no reason to doubt of the theory. 



When the spot was near the middle of the sun, it appeared very broad and 

 almost square, the nucleus of the figure about 40* diameter ; but when it was 

 near the limb, much narrower, and almost oval. It seemed to have consistence 

 enough to endure a second return ; if it shall, it will enter the visible disk of 

 the sun on the 21st of May in the evening, and in its passage over him describe 

 a line nearly straight, with greater latitude from the ecliptic. 



Account of a Polypus found in the Heart of a Person that died epileptical, at 

 Oxon. By W. Gould, M. B. Fellow of IVadham College, and F. R. S. 

 N° 157, P- 537. 



The person whose body was the subject of dissection, was a poor labouring 

 man, a stranger in the town, and destitute of relations. He died in the street 

 suddenly; so that there cannot be expected so particular a relation of the 

 symptoms he laboured under as could be wished. However some things mate- 

 rial to our purpose, as far as we could learn from the vulgar, who conversed 

 with him in his illness, were such as these, viz. That he was of a swarthy, lurid 

 complexion ; that he was afflicted with fits of the falling sickness ; an obstinate 

 quartan ague of above a year's continuance ; a deep jaundice, even to that de- 

 gree which is called the black, with its constant consequent an universal 

 settled ill habit of body ; a sensation of a hard load and pressure at his stomach, 

 meaning perhaps his breast, or the upper part of the region of the liver. He 

 complained much of very great shortness of breath, being almost constantly ap- 

 prehensive of choking; far-fetched involuntary sighings, and prodigious palpi- 

 tations of his heart, were the continued mischiefs that attended his miseralile 

 life, a great while before death relieved him. He used to swoon very often ; 

 and at length died ; according to the judgment of the by-standers, in the 

 shivering fit of his ague, with the convulsions of an epilepsy, not without foam- 

 ing and frothing at his mouth. 



On opening the body, the liver upon deep incisions appeared bloodless, sluflfed 



