674 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1723. 



j^n Account of a remarkable Haemorrhage from the Penis ; in a Letter from 

 Dr, HowTTian to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. President of the College of Physi- 

 cians, and Vice President of tfie Royal Society. N'^ 379, p. 418. Trans- 

 lated from the Latin. 



A citizen of Norwich, aged 40, at a time when he was in perfect health, was 

 seized with a haemorrhage from the urethra, on the 30th of June ; and again 

 on the 3 1st of July. By the use of some medicine and bleeding in the arm, 

 the haemorrhage was stopped until the 8th of Sept.; after which it entirely 

 ceased. It is worthy of remark, that these discharges of blood were not pre- 

 ceded by any pain, nor followed by any depression of spirits. 



An Account of the Pits for Fullers Earth in Bedfordshire. By the Rev. Mr. 

 B. Holloway, F.R.S. N° 379, P- 419. 



Several fullers-earth pits are open at Wavendon near Woburn, where the 

 earth is disposed in much the same manner in all of them. 



From the surface, for about 6 yards in depth, there are several layers of 

 sands, all reddish, but some lighter coloured than others, under which there is 

 a thin stratum of red sand-stone, which they break through ; and then for 

 the depth of about 7 or 8 yards more, you have sand again, and after that come 

 to the fullers-earth; the upper layer of which, being about a foot deep, they 

 call the cledge; and this is by the diggers thrown by as useless, being too much 

 mixed with the sand which covers, and has insinuated itself among it; after 

 which they dig up earth for use, to the depth of about 8 feet more, distin- 

 guished into several layers, there being commonly about a foot and a half be- 

 tween one horizontal fissure and another. Of these layers of fullers-earth, 

 the upper half, where the earth breaks itself, is tinged red, as it seems by the 

 running of water from the sandy strata above; and this part they call the crop; 

 between which and the cledge, abovementioned, is a thin layer of matter not 

 an inch thick, in taste, colour, and consistency, not unlike to terra japonica. 

 The lower half of the layers of fullers-earth, they call the wall-earth ; this is 

 untinged with that red abovementioned, and seems to be the more pure and 

 fitter for fulling; and underneath all is a stratum of white rough stone, of 

 about 2 feet thick, which, if they dig through, as they very seldom do, they 

 find sand again, and then is an end of their works. 



It is observable in the site of this earth, that it seems to have every where a 

 pretty equal horizontal level ; or when the sand ridges at the surface are higher, 

 the fullers-earth lies proportionably deeper. 



