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Another thing shown by the foregoing table is, that there is some agree- 

 ment between the winds at Towneley and Upminster. Which, though not 

 always exactly in the same point, yet they often tend the same way, blowing 

 within a point or two perhaps of the same course; especially when the wind is 

 somewhat strong. Or if the winds have differed, yet the scud, as the seamen 

 call the current of the clouds, has commonly shown the motion of the upper 

 air to agree. 



Astronomi<^ Cometicce Synopsis, Autore Edmundo Halleio, apud Oxonienses 

 Geometrice Professore Saviliano, et Reg. Soc. S. N° 297, p. 1882.* 



Concerning Horn-like Excrescences growing on the Fingers, &c. By Dr, 

 Rd.JVroe, Warden of Manchester College. N° 297, p. I899. 



Nathaniel Hulme of Bolton, 8 miles from Manchester, aged about 17, had 

 the small pox at about 8 years old : soon afterwards, he had an itch, almost to 

 the degree of a leprosy, whereby his fingers and thumb-nails began to grow 

 thick, and by degrees hardened into horns; which grew in 7 or 8 months, 

 some an inch in length, and some almost 2 inches, and others much longer. 

 It began in the fore finger of his left hand, and so to all the rest of that hand. 

 All which horns, at about the end of twelve months, fell off one after 

 another, without any pain, unless when cut off, as they were at first, there 

 appearing great quicks or roots under the nails. By degrees they came on the 

 thumbs, and then on the fingers, of the right hand ; which grew to the same 

 length in about a year's time, and then fell off, he having shed them 5 or 6 

 several times. They are now at present all come off his left hand, but growing 

 again : that on his little finger is 2 inches long. This account I took of him 

 above two years since, in 1 702 ; and have seen him frequently since, and lately, 

 and the horns still grow, and fall off, as usual. 



In a 2d letter dated Oct. 2, 1704, wherewith 2 of the horns which grew 

 upon the boy's fingers were sent. Dr. Wroe mentions, that he had then all the 

 fingers of both hands armed with the like, and some as long as those he sent. 

 He had them on every toe also, but kept them cut, that he might be able to 

 wear shoes. He adds that he saw him a few days before, and thought he 

 could not live long, being miserably overspread with his leprosy. 



* Dr. Halley's Astronomy of Comets is here omitted, as it has been elsewhere published in a 

 much fuller and more complete state, and that both in the English and Latin languages : as in the 

 Miscellanea Curiosa, of Dr. Halley, in 3 volumes 8vo. in English ; also translated and published in 

 English, by G, T. Gent, in Svo. 1757 ; and still more complete and perfect in Dr Halley's Astronomi- 

 cal Tables, in 4to. both in Latin and English. 



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