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commoded, that a great fit of sickness, and even death itself, may be the con- 

 sequence of it ; for if we do but consider what a deal of phlegm we discharge 

 in that sickness which we call a cold ; and if it be greenish, it is almost a puru- 

 lent matter, which comes out of the air vessels of the lungs, we are presently 

 frighted at it, and with reason, for the disease may proceed so far that a con- 

 sumption of the lungs may ensue. 



Concerning some Roman Coins, and other Matters lately observed in Lincolnshire. 

 By Mr. Thoreshy. N° 279, p. 1156. 



One Edward Lenton being about to fence in a hay-stack, and digging a grip 

 for that purpose about the depth of half a yard, he struck his spade upon a pot, 

 in which, when he broke it, he found 36 pounds weight of old Roman copper 

 coin. The pieces had been set in rows edgewise one by another, and stuck so 

 together with the verdigrise or rust of copper, that many of them required a 

 chisel or some such thing to separate them ; but being separated, cleaned, and 

 brightened, the heads or figures of all, or most of them, were very fair, some 

 as when newly stamped, and the inscriptions of many very legible. The place 

 where they were found, is in the midst of the largest flat or level in England, 

 and in a ground that for many ages past used to be covered with water in the 

 winter, and overgrown with reeds in the summer. It is about a mile and a half 

 south by west from Fleet Church, and about as far south by east from Holbeach. 

 There are no banks or hillocks, old works or ruins, to be seen near it ; nor the 

 remains or tokens of any thing extraordinary to be seen, excepting the old sea 

 bank about 2 or 3 miles off: which Dugdale, from a passage in Tacitus, believes 

 to have been cast up by the Roman soldiers. But all is as level as the sea, and 

 a low country, producing a coarse flaggy grass round about it. The pot, Vhich 

 was narrowest at the top and bottom, but wider in the middle, had an inscrip- 

 tion about it, which, though it seems in some of the sherds or pieces to be fair 

 at first sight, yet is not legible. 



Near the River Welland, that runs through the town of Spalding in Lincoln- 

 shire, at the depth of about 8 or 10 feet there were found jetty s, as they call 

 them, to keep up the old river bank ; and the head of a tunnel, that emptied 

 the land-water into the old river ; also at a considerable distance from the pre- 

 sent river, I guess 10 or 30 yards, there were dug up, at the like depth, several 

 old boats ; all which show that anciently the river was either much wider than 

 now, or ran in another place or both. On the north west side of the river, 

 and more upwards in the town, were dug up at about the same depth, the re- 

 mains of old tan vats or pits, a great quantity of ox-horns, shoe soles, and 



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