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the earth that has been put into this sepulchre, which was dug on purpose in 

 the chalk, to bury these bodies, and likewise the ashes and bones of those others 

 that were burnt. So that it seems difficult to reconcile the two ceremonies of 

 burying and burning ; unless perhaps there has been a battle in this place, be- 

 tween the Gauls and some barbarous nation, who had invaded them ; that the 

 Gauls have burned their dead, and sacrificed to their maties the prisoners taken 

 in war, whom they buried with the ceremonies proper to those barbarians. 

 The thickness of whose sculls shows that they went bare-headed ; and their 

 arms show that they had not the use either of iron or brass, to make arms of; 

 but using such as nature afforded first, as some Indian nations do now. 



Extract of a Letter from Rome, dated the l6th of Nov. last, to Signior Sarotti, 

 concerning a Discovery made by the Inundation of the Tevere. Translated out 

 of the Italian. N° 185, p. 227. 



The inundation of the river has done considerable damage, all about this 

 city, spoiling several fine houses, and large aqueducts, by breaking down 

 their conduits, &c. In several places by breaking the ground, it has discovered 

 vaults unknown before ; many of them full of earthen urns, and sepulchres ; 

 and in a place, within two miles of this city, where there was some large 

 ancient ruins, the water having pierced a strong thick wall, joining to a great 

 country palace, and passing under the same, broke out at a corner of an aque- 

 duct by the said house, where there was found a small vault of an oval figure, 

 in which was a pretty large stone sepulchre, with the following inscription, P.M. 

 R.C. cum uxore, and some more sculpture not legible. Near it was a large 

 earthen urn, shut up very close ; which being opened there came out such a 

 strong smoke, as made the person near it giddy ; the smell was like bitumen, 

 but being quickly dispersed, there was found in the bottom of the urn, an 

 earthen pot, made up as a lamp, full of a materia oleosa, which by degrees, as 

 the cold air entered, grew hard. 



Account of a petrified Glandula Pinealis, lately found in the Dissection of a Brain; 

 communicated by Sir Edmond King, Knt. M.D. F.R.S. N° 185, p. 228. 



Mr. Robert Bacon, master of arts, of Corpus Christi College in Oxford, 

 above 75 years of age, formerly employed in transcribing and publishing the 

 posthurfious works of Dr. Robert Gell, and who had been a preacher at Bustle- 

 ton, near Bristol, and afterwards at "Windsor ; was of a sanguine habit of body, 

 and of a cheerful temper. 



About 12 years since he was observed to bend double to his right side, in 



