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production of the broad ligament on the right side, which was evident from its 

 continuity to those parts, and the distribution of the spermatic vessels, which 

 were larger than usual, and passed from the extremity of the tube to the larger 

 lump. 



The womb was entire, and in its natural state, except that it was something 

 larger than ordinary, being about the size of that of a woman 10 or 12 days 

 after her delivery, and no signs that the child had been lodged in it. M. Jouey, 

 having observed this, called in several eminent physicians and surgeons, and the 

 womb being carefully dissected, it was unanimously agreed, that the foetus had 

 never been in it ; it being in the same state as in women who are not with child, 

 except the small dilatation of its bulk, which might arise from a compression of 

 the vessels, and interception of the refluent blood by the unnatural position of 

 the foetus. In thrusting a long and slender probe through the right horn of the 

 womb, it easily passed into the tube of the same side, for 3 fingers breadth, 

 but it could not be thrust further by reason of the constriction of the tube in 

 that part. The capacity of the tube could not be distinguished ; its parietes, by 

 their coalition with the chorion and amnios of the child, forming the bag in 

 which the child was included, which extended from the tube on the right side 

 to that on the left, and was agglutinated to the viscera in the lower belly to 

 the rectum, and to the back part of the womb, as appeared by some fragments 

 remaining on those parts after the separation. 



Of some Parhelia seen at Canterbury. By Mr. Stephen Graij. N°251, p. \lQ. 



Feb. 16, l69-«, being Sunday, about half after 3 in the afternoon, looking 

 out of a window facing the south-east, I saw, not far from the south to the 

 westward, an appearance of somewhat not much unlike the sun when seen 

 through clouds, viz. with its periphery not exactly defined ; from which it like- 

 wise differed, one half of it being of a deep red and yellow, the other white. 

 I took a theodolite into the garden, in order to take its distance from the sun, 

 which the room would not permit ; but was then presented with an appearance 

 exactly like the former, but on the opposite side of the sun ; I took the distance 

 of this from the sun, which was 23° westward; but before I could take the 

 distance of the eastern one, it vanished, but soon after re-appeared, and then I 

 perceived manifestly, that they were both situate in the extremities of a semi- 

 circle, whose centre was the sun, passing between it and the zenith. This ap- 

 pearance continued about half an hour. 



