352 rHILOSOPHlCAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1729- 



ings ; but instead of that, the upper part was indented in many parts, with 

 long black pyramids, somewhat resembling the streams of the lumen boreale, 

 the edges of which were gilded with lucid rays, of the streaming colour : nd 

 all over the clouds, or vaporous bank, was a great commotion or disturbance 

 behind them, as if something was rolling, or tumbling behind them. In less 

 than an hour, the clouds, which had been pretty still, began to move to the 

 s. w. and at last obscured the whole hemisphere ; which before was all clear 

 enough, except towards the north, to show the stars, though bespread with 

 vapours, like a thin fog, a little inclining to red. 



A remarkable Conformation of the Urittory Parts. By Mr. John Budgen. 

 N° 410, p. 138. From the Latin. 



In 171 1) a female cliild was born, at Ockley in Surry, on whose back, about 

 the inferior vertebrae, appeared an indolent tumour, of the colour of the skin, 

 and size of a large pigeon-egg, that grew up to such a size with the child, that 

 when she was about 9 or 10 years of age, it exactly resembled a calf's bladder, 

 when blown up, but without a neck : in 1728 it was as large as an ox's bladder. 

 On the 29th of Jan. 1 728-9, the tumour broke as she lay in bed, from which 

 there issued a large quantity of liquor, like urine. On narrowly examining it, 

 Mr. Budgen found the tunics, the mucous matter on the inside, the ureters, 

 veins and arteries, entirely the same as is common in the bladder ; and there 

 was some communication with the internal parts by a foramen in the vertebrae, 

 through which one's little finger might enter into the abdomen, and which re- 

 ceived the aforesaid vessels. On the 2d of Feb. 1 728-9, the young woman 

 died ; and had the body been opened, Mr. Budgen believes he might have 

 found the neck of the bladder in the abdomen, but no bladder. For, after the 

 tumour broke she did not so much as once make water. 



An Observation of the Eclipse of the Moon, at Castle-Dobbs near Carrichfergus 

 in Ireland, Feb. 1, 1728-9. By Arthur Dobs, Esq. N°410, p. 140. 



The observation was made by a 9-foot glass. Having adjusted a monthly 

 pendulum clock by a meridian line on the 30th of Jan. and further corrected 

 by the meridian, Feb. (3, 1 728-9. — Apparent time, 

 p. M. 6'^ 27"^ O^ A penumbra observed. 



29 30 The moon's limb immerged. 

 7 30 15 The moon totally immerged. 

 9 8 30 Moon's eastern limb emerged near mens acabe. 



