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county of Kerry : and if so, I have reason to believe, that hereafter farther 

 inquiry may add to those I have given, several other examples of things natural 

 and common to that and this country. 



Account of several Magnetical Experiments ; and of a Person who pretended to 

 cure or cause Diseases at a Distance, by applying a Sympathetic Poivder to the 

 Urine* N° 227, p. 512. 



Tliese magnetical experiments are to be considered now as rather trifling, 

 or of very little consequence. They consist chiefly in trying whether pieces of 

 magnet would act as in open air when inclosed in sealed glass vessels, or im- 

 mersed in water, &c. 



Account of a Book; viz. ATKO<E)PONO£ TOY XAAKIAEflS AAEHANAPA, Kai n; 

 ajTo Taro I2AKIOT tS TZETZOT EHHTHMA. Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alex- 

 andra, cum Grcecis Isacii Tzetzis Commentariis. Accedunt f^ersiones, Va- 

 riantes Lectiones, Emendationes, Annotationes et Indices Necessarii. Curd et 

 Opera Johannis Potteri,'^- A. M. et CoUegii Lincolniensis Socii, Oxonii, e The- 

 atro Sheldoniano, An. Dom. 1697. N° 227, p. 522. 



Lycophron's Cassandra is the only work that remains to us, out of the many 

 volumes of that author : it is a poem the most intricate and obscure of any, 

 that has ever appeared in the Greek, or other languages : but its usefulness 

 sufficiently compensates for its obscurity. The design is thus ; Cassandra, the 

 daughter of Priam king of Troy, seeing her brother Paris put to sea, with 

 an intent to fetch Plelena from Greece, and being before instructed by Apollo 

 in the art of divination, foretels the manifold calamities which that voyage 

 brought upon her native country ; and having premised an account of the 

 former taking of Troy by Hercules, she enumerates all the miseries which the 

 Grecians and Trojans underwent during the long ten years' siege of that city, 

 and at the destruction of it, with the various fortunes that befel them after- 



* The concluding part of this communication relates to a German quack, who pretended to cure 

 sick and wounded people by what he called a sympathetic powder, which operated, (as be asserted) 

 at his liouse, upon the urine of persons brought to him. 



t The Rev. John Potter, archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Wakefield inYorkshire, in l674' 

 At 19 he published his Variantes Lectiones et Notse ad Plutarch, libr. de Aud. Poet, and the year 

 after he was chosen fellow of Lincoln coll. At 23 (1697) he published the above learned edilion of 

 Lycophron ; and the same year also the first volume of his Antiquities of Greece ; literary pursuits 

 which engaged him in a correspondence with Grsevius and other learned men abroad. In 1715 he was 

 made bishop of Oxford; and in 1737 archbishop of Canterbury He died suddenly in 1747, at 73 

 years of age. 



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