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vine, with its leaves and grapes. It has been affirmed and attested, both by 

 the deceased himself and several of his relations and friends, that his mother, 

 when big with child, had an earnest desire for grapes, and impatient to stay till 

 they were full ripe, went down into the garden to pluck off some of those 

 unripe; on which a whole branch with its leaves and grapes suddenly fell down 

 upon her right arm, at which she was much frightened. Some time after, she 

 was brought to bed, and the child was observed to have several reddish or bluish 

 spots, beginning from behind his shoulder, and from thence extending over 

 the same, down the right arm to the fingers. The captain's whole right side 

 was larger than the left by more than an inch, and so continued to his death. 

 The veins of the right arm were much raised, lying almost immediately under 

 the cuticula, which made them very discernible; they were also much distended, 

 chiefly between the elbow and hand, where they were almost as thick as a man's 

 thumb. On the inside of the fore finger the vein was extended into a small 

 tumour, of a reddish or purple blue colour, about the size of a nutmeg, corru- 

 gated with some lenticular protuberances, which made it in some measure 

 resemble a grape. The like tumours, but not so large, were observed in several 

 other parts of the arm, in the spring time; and as they thought, when the 

 sap began to enter the vines, as also when the vines flowered, and in autumn, 

 when the wine was fermenting, the captain was taken ill, with violent and itch- 

 ing pains in the aflTected arm for some days. The whole right side then swelled 

 more than usual, and the veins and tumours were so distended with blood, that 

 at last a serous matter was forced out of the pores of the tumours, which as it 

 gave the patient some relief, so he promoted it, by scraping the tumours with 

 the edge of a penknife. If the captain held up his affected arm, the running 

 of the blood backwards, in the distended veins, was very visible. If he held 

 his arm down again, the blood returned with some noise, and sensibly filled up 

 again the vessels, which by the preceding action had been emptied; for which 

 reason, when in bed, he was obliged to lay his arm upwards. 



An Account of a Book, entitled, Historia Coelestis Britannica, tribus Fblumi- 

 nibus contenta, Authore Joanne Flamsteedio, Astron. Reg. N° 389, P- 350. 



The first volume contains the observations of Mr. William Gascoigne, the 

 first inventor of the way of measuring angles in a telescope, by the help of 

 screws, and the first that applied telescopical sights to astronomical instru- 

 ments, taken at Middleton, near Leeds, in Yorkshire, between the years ] 638 

 and 1643, excerpted from his letters to Mr. Crabtree; with some of Mr. Crab- 

 tree's observations of the same years ; as also observations of the sun's and 



