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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 



[anno 1698. 



ib 



Ivy 3 



Roots of esula 3 



Sassafras 3 



Eyebright . . 3 



Distilled roses 3 



3 5 3gr. ft 



Black pepper 5 



14 Ginger 5 



4 

 



4 



Rootsof black hellebore 4 



Orange flowers 4 6 



Leaves of Cyprus 4 7 3 5 



Mugwort 5 



Pomegranate bark 6 



Roots of liquorice 6 



Turbilh 8 



Maiden-hair distilled 9 



Scorzonera lb' 



5 3g>-- 



4 



2 2 



















Pellitory 5 Lignum sanctum 20 



^ Table of the Salts luhich are extracted from One Pound of Ashes. 



I 5 



3gr. 

 1 8 

 4 



8 



1 22 



Maiden-hair 



Roots of black hellebore 



Orange flowers 1 



Laurel leaves 3 



Root o* esula 



Roots of liquorice 6 



Pellitory 



Water melons 



600 

 f) 1 11 



3 



Fir 1 



Roots of white hellebore 1 



Scopse 1 



Another 1 



Eyebright 1 



Other leaves of laurel 1 



Bindweed 2 



Gourds 2 



Red onions 7 1 Roses 3 



Endive 



10 



Concerning a Shower of Fishes. By Dr. Rob. Conyiy. N'^ 243, p. 28g. 



On Wednesday before Easter, Anno 1666, a pasture field at Cranstead, near 

 Wrotham, in Kent, about 1 acres, which is far from any part of the sea, or 

 branch of it, and a place where are no fish ponds, but a scarcity of water, was 

 all overspread with little fishes, conceived to be rained down, there having been 

 at that time a great tempest of thunder and rain ; the fishes were about the 

 length of a man's little finger, and judged by all that saw them to be young 

 whitings, Many of them were taken up, and showed to several persons. The 

 field belonged to one Ware, a yeoman, who was at that Easter- sessions one of 

 the grand inquest, and carried some of them to the sessions at Maidstone in 

 Kent, and he showed them, among others, to Mr. Lake, a bencher of the 

 Middle Temple, who had one of them, and brought one to London. The 

 truth of it was averred by many that saw the fishes lie scattered all over that 

 field. Tliere were none in the other fields adjoining : the quantity of them was 

 estimated to be about a bushel. 



The IVay of making Pilch, Tar, Rosin, and Turpentine, near Marseilles. Com- 

 municated in a Letter from Nismes. By Mr. Thomas Bent. N° 243, p. 29 J. 



Five leagues from Marseilles are very high mountains, for the most part 

 covered with forests of pine trees. Half a league out of the road is seen the 

 making of pitch, tar, rosin, and turpentine, which is thus: in the spring time. 



