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other times these pipes or tunnels are observed to come from the clouds, and 

 suck up the water with great noise and violence. They move from the place 

 where they were first collected, according to the motion of the wind, and dis- 

 charge themselves sometimes into the sea, to the unavoidable destruction of 

 such ships as are in their way, if they be small vessels, and to the damaging 

 of large ones : sometimes they fall on the shore, beating down all they meet 

 with, and raising the sand and stones to a prodigious height. It is said, that 

 vessels that have any force usually fire their guns at tliem, laden with a bar of 

 iron, and if they be so happy as to strike them, the water is presently seen to 

 run out of them with a mighty noise, without farther mischief. 



yin Account of a Booh, viz. — The Anatomy of the Brain, containing its Me- 

 chanism and Physiology, together with some neiv Discoveries and Corrections of 

 Ancient and Modern Authors upon that Subject: to luhich is annexed, a parti- 

 cular Account of Animal Functions and Muscular Motion. By Hen. Ridley,* 

 Col. Med. Land. Soc. N° 215, p. 32. 



Account of the upper Part of the Burning Mountain in the Isle of Ternata. 



N"" 216, p. 42. 



This is a tedious uninteresting narrative. 

 Account of the sad Mischief which befel the Inhabitants of the Isle of Sorea, 



near the Moluccas, for which they have been forced to leave their Country. In 



a Letter to M. Nicholas IVitzen, of Amsterdam, 1693. And communicated 



to Dr. Lister, S.R.S. N°2l6, p. 49. 



In the beginning of the easterly season, the isle Sorea, situated towards the 

 south-east of these islands, consisting for the most part of one mountain, 

 which now is more terribly shaken than ever before, casting out abundance of 

 fire and smoke, only with some short intermissions. And when the easterly 

 wind had blown about 6 or 7 weeks, till about the 4th of June, the inhabitants 

 being almost so far used to the trembling and casting up of fire that they were 

 careless, the mountain Sorea began early in the morning to cast out more fire 

 than ordinary, which continued for 5 or 6 days ; during which it was dark and 

 cloudy weather, till at last it brought forth not only a most prodigious flame, 

 but also such a black and sulphureous vapour, that the inhabitauts of Hislo, a 

 village in the western part of the island, and nearest to the opening of the 

 mountain, were wholly covered by it ; and afterwards followed a whole stream 

 of burning brimstone, which consumed many that could not escape. After- 



* This work of Ridley's on the brain, wherein several (hings are noticed which had escnped others, 

 deserves to be numbered among those productions of the English anatomists of the 17ih century, 

 which are distinguished for their uiihty and ingenuity. The plates, however, as Haller has re- 

 marked, are upon too small a scale. 



