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SO expanding itself raises the ice above it, and sometimes makes it crack so as 

 to frighten the whole neighbourhood. And the reason plainly appears, because 

 the upper surface being solid, cannot be dilated without making great chinks, 

 and that with a terrible noise. They told me, on the place, that every seven 

 years the mountain increases, and the next seven it decreases; but I doubt their 

 observation is not exact. If there be any foundation for it, it seems to be, 

 that in the hottest summers it increases, and in the more moderate ones it de- 

 creases, there being then less melted snow. 



Account of a Musket- Bullet^ lodged in the Head near 30 Years; and the 

 strange Manner of its coming out of the Head. By Dr. Robert Fielding. 

 N°320, p. 317. 



At the first Newbury fight, in the time of the late civil wars, the doctor was 

 shot near the right eye on the os petrosum, by which the skull was broken, 

 and a great effusion of blood from the wound, mouth, and nostrils ensued. 

 The surgeon probing the wound for the discovery of the bullet, but failing of his 

 intention, on the third day after the shot, placed him horizontally towards the 

 sun; then, depressing the fractured skull with the probe, he could see the 

 pulsation of the brain, but could not discover the bullet. When the doctor 

 began to grow cold, his mouth closed up in a manner, and so continued for 

 the space of half a year, till many fractures of bones were come out of the 

 wound, mouth, and nostrils ; and afterwards, whenever a splinter was to 

 come away, his mouth would close, insomuch that several years after he would 

 prognosticate to some friends, that a bone was then coming out, which con- 

 tinued so for 6 or 7 weeks; at which time finding an itching in the orifice of 

 the wound, he felt a bone with his finger, and it being no larger than a pin*s 

 head, he immediately opened his mouth. 



At the second Newbury fight it healed up, and no art could keep it open. 

 Afterwards, for the space of ten years or more, there was a flux of sanious 

 matter from the right nostril, and ceasing there, it flowed from the left nostril 

 for some years: at length, for about two years, on riding, the doctor" would 

 sometimes feel a pain on the left side about the almonds of the ear, which he 

 attributed to cold, but more especially after riding in a cold dark night, which 

 occasioned a kind of deafness too ; and having stopped his ear with wool to 

 recover his hearing, one day in March 1 670, it gave such a sudden puff^ or 

 crack, as made him start. Upon this, all that side of the cheek hung 

 loose, as if paralytic, and a hard knot might be felt under the ear. 



Afterwards several tumours succeeded each other on that side under the jaw-^ 



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