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greater number it was white or cineritious ; in others it was of the colour and 

 consistence of the occidental bezoar; while in a few, it resembled the ori- 

 ental bezoar. 



Moreover there was found in the kidney,* a stone weighing 3 drs, seemingly 

 formed of 6 spheres, as represented in fig. 4, and in substance similar for the 

 most part to the calculi found in the stomach. 



For other instances of calculi in the stomach, see Phil. Trans. N° 250,-j~ and 

 Eph. Nat. Curios. Dec. ], Ann. 1, Obs. 181. 



Concerning Two Pigs of Lead, found near Ripley, with this Inscription on them. 

 Imp. Cms. Domitiano Aug. Cos. vii. By the Rev. Mr. S. Kirkshaw. 

 N° 459, P- 560. 



These were found by a countryman, whose horse's foot slipping into a hole 

 covered with ling, he dismounted, and, thrusting his stick into the hole, per- 

 ceived something hard, and of the sound of metal ; then, by digging, he 

 found these two pieces of lead, standing upright, and near each other, about 2 

 feet under-ground. They are of the same shape and dimensions, and have the 

 same inscription. One of them weighs 1 1 stone, the other 1 1 stone and 1 

 pound. The letters of the inscription are raised, and very bold. There have 

 been 4 other letters on the side of each of them ; but they are become so ob- 

 scure, that they cannot be discovered with any certainty. — They seem to have 

 been b. n. i. g. . . . The great Roman causeway leading from Aldborough, in 

 this neighbourhood, into Lancashire, passes within a little way of the place 

 where the leads were found. There have been no lead-mines, as far as can be 

 known, within some miles of it : but a countryman speaks of a large rock, 

 about half a mile from it, on the top of which there is an impression similar to 

 either of the leads, only so much larger as to admit of a pan, wherein they 

 might be smelted, if in so early time they knew the modern art of smelting by 

 the air. 



Camden mentions 20 pieces of lead of this kind, found in Cheshire, part of 



them with this inscription, Imp. Domit. Aug. Ger, De. Ceang Camden's 



Britan. fol. edit. p. 679. — However, among the Duke of Parma's medals, pub- 

 lished by Paolo Pedrusi, we do not find any struck in the 7th consulate of 

 Domitian, but what have the addition of divi filius, or the like. That author 

 too says, that the first year of Domitian's being emperor was the 8th of his 

 consulate ; nether of which agree with the inscription on the leads. — 



• In rene ; but in which of the kidneys it is not specified. * 



t Vol. iv, p. 357, of these Abridgments. 



