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make an estimate of his stature by the dimensions of his bedstead, which is said 

 to have been kept as a memoral of him at Rabbath of the children of Ammon, 

 and to have been g cubits in length ; but then we cannot imagine but that his 

 bed must of necessity have been much longer than his body ; and the least 

 allowance we can make for the overplus is the space of nine inches above his 

 head, and as much below his feet ; and if we make this deduction it will follow 

 he was not above 12 feet high; much of the same standard with this giant, 

 whose forehead bone is still kept in the Medical School at Leyden. 



An Account of the Number of Persons Married, Christened, and Deceased 

 in all the Dominions of the Elector of Brandenburgh, in the Year l6g8. 

 N^dSl, p. 508. 



The amount of all these was as follows, viz. — Married ISigS — Christened 

 67763 — Deceased 44678. 



On the fVorms in Sheep's Livers, Gnats and Animalcula in the Excrements of 

 Frogs. By Mr. Antony Kan Leuwenhoech. N" 26 1, p. 509. 



I have been considering the animal our butchers call maggots, which are 

 often found in the livers of sheep,* in wet summers. When the sheep 

 have drunk water where these animals were, they are carried with their 

 food, out of the stomach into the beginning of the guts, where the gall bladder 

 empties itself, and being pleased with the taste of the gall, they swim against it 

 into the bladder itself, and thence go into the vessels (like veins and arteries) 

 of the gall. 



To try to discover the animals in the water, I went in August into several 

 pasture grounds, where sheep feed that were troubled with these diseases, and 

 there I took up some water in a clear glass out of the ditches, which I exa- 

 mined with a more than ordinary magnifying-glass, and observed that several 

 sorts of animalcules swam in it. The greater kind of animals were those that 

 produce gnats, which have stings, and annoy both men and beasts. One sort 

 of the animals generally sunk to the bottom, as soon as they ceased to move 

 their bodies ; and when in moving they came to touch the surface of the water 

 with any prominent part, then their heads hung down, and they remained 

 hanging by the surface of the water. The 2d sort of these animalcules could 

 not remain at the bottom, but were generally carried towards the surface of the 

 water, where they remained hanging by 2 horns that came out of the upper 



* Fasciola hepatica. Linn. 



