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ramid with the point than with the base forward. But this I think may be ad- 

 mitted, viz. that different mediums equally fluid, other circumstances being 

 alike, do resist in such proportion as is their intensive gravity ; because there is, 

 in such proportion, a heavier object to be removed by the same force. And 

 again, the heavier project once in motion, being equally swift, and all other 

 circumstances alike, moves through the same medium in such proportion more ' 

 strongly, as is its intensive gravity ; for now the force is greater in such propor- 

 tion, for the removal of the same resistance. But where there is a complication 

 of these considerations, and of many other circumstances, whereof each is 

 severally to be considered, respect must then be had to them all.* 



On the Grains resembling Wheat which fell lately in Wiltshire. By Mr. Wm. 

 Cole, of Bristol. N°186, p. 281. 

 This city and country round about are filled with reports of raining wheat 

 about Warminster, and other places within 6 or 8 miles of it ; and many believe 

 it. I have procured several parcels of it, and carefully examined them, and 

 find it to be the seeds of ivy berries, which from towers and churches, chimnies, 

 walls, and high buildings, were, lately by very fierce tempests of wind and hail, 

 driven from the holes, chinks, and other parts, where birds had brought them, 

 especially starlings and choughs. It were to little purpose to tell you the pro- 

 digious stories which have been made of it. But I have, by all the ways I can 

 imagine, examined and compared them with the seeds of ivy berries, as by the 

 taste, smell, size, and figure ; and with the assistance of magnifying glasses 

 viewing them in both the superficial and inward parts. 



Extract of a Letter, dated Dec. 4, l686, written by Mr. Veay, Physician at 

 Toulouse, to Mr. de St. Ussans, concerning a very extraordinary Herma- 

 phrodite in that City. Communicated by Dr. Aglionby, Reg. Soc. S.-f 

 N" 186, p. 282. 

 Une chose fort extraordinaire, m'est arrivce il y a quelques jours dans I'hos- 



* To the note before given on the first article of this paper, may here be added, that Dr. Walli* 

 in the conclusion of it, by these remarks shows that he was aware of many other circumstances to 

 he considered, which could only be derived from proper experiments ; which experiments be was then 

 either not aware how they were to be conducted, or had not the means of performing. And nearly 

 in the same state has this important part of philosophy continued to the present time, uncompleted 

 by any series of experiments, excepting those of which a small specimen is given in Dr. Hutton's 

 Philosophical Dictionary, art. Resistance, where the real experimented resistance is given for every 

 degree of velocity, from the smallest up to the greatest, of 2000 feet per second of time, and of 

 which experiments a ftiUer account may possibly one day see the light. 



f This communication is reprinted in the original French, it being judged improper to appear in 

 English. 



