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has this note : " 2d of Sept. 1672, was buried Thomas, the son of James 

 Lambert jun. deceased, of Holbeck, slain the day before, being the Lord's 

 day, by a thunderbolt." There were other children in company, who were 

 also thrown down by the storm, among whom were two, a brother and sister ; 

 he had a pair of new stockings burnt off his legs, and himself was so scorched, 

 that he never recovered his natural complexion ; she having a waistcoat clasped 

 before, as the fashion then was, was so burnt between her breasts, that the 

 scars remain to this day; another had the stiffened neck of his doublet 

 struck off; but all recovered except Lambert's boy, who was found with his 

 face upward, whereas all the rest had theirs to the earth : which reminds me of 

 our coal-miners' practice, who, when any swoon away by their sulphurous damps, 

 dig a hole in the earth and lay them on their bellies, with their mouths in it, 

 which, if it prove not an absolute suffocation, recovers them. The skin of the 

 deceased boy was perfectly burnt black, and was shrunk up hard like parchment 

 or leather burnt with fire. 



An Account of Fart of a Collection of curious Plants and Drugs, lately given 

 to the Royal Society by the East India Company. N° 264, p. 579. 



At the beginning of the 20th volume of these papers, an account was pro- 

 mised of a curious collection of plants and other simples, gathered by Mr. 

 Samuel Brown, a physician at Fort St. George in the East Indies. The per- 

 formance of which promise has been hitherto delayed, because some of the 

 seeds were distributed and raised in the most curious gardens in England, as at 

 the duchess of Beaufort's at Badminton, the bishop of London's at Fulham, 

 Dr. Robert Vuedale's at Enfield, Mr. Jacob Bobart's in Oxford, Mr. Du 

 Bois's at Mitcham, and Mr. Samuel Doody's at the Apothecaries' Garden in 

 Chelsea. 



The plants themselves, and the original papers of Mr. Brown are kept in 

 the same order, and with the same numbers in the repository of the society, 

 as they are here published. 



Then follow an enumeration and description of 47 East India plants, ga- 

 thered by Mr. Brown from Feb. 26th to the 28th at Hingner Pollum, about 

 20 miles from Fort St. George (Madras). To the Malabar names Mr. Pe- 

 tiver adds, the synonyms of Bauhine, Pluckenet, Commelinus, and other 

 botanists. 



