VOL. XLl.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 47Q 



Hants, l)amrun-j-cipe, among others, was miserably harassed by these cruel in- 

 vaders this year of the date. It is therefore very extraordinary, that so fine a 

 pile, according to the age when it was builded should be raised at a time when 

 every thing else, sacred and civil, was plundered and destroyed by these merci- 

 less ravages. But probably the devastation was not quite so general as re- 

 presented. 



If this be a genuine date, it is probably the oldest, Indian or other, that has 

 vet been noticed in England, perhaps in Europe ; and quite destroys the opi- 

 nions advanced by Scaliger, Vossius, F. Mabillon, Dr. Wallis, and other learned 

 men, concerning this matter. 



Observations concerning the Virtue of the Jelly of Black Currants, in curing /w- 

 fiammations in the Throat. By Henry Baker, F. R.S. N* 459, p. 655. 



In this paper Mr. B. states, that being frequently attacked with inflammation 

 in the throat, and not finding sufficient relief from the usual remedies, he was 

 at length advised by a clergyman of his acquaintance to swallow leisurely a small 

 quantity of black currant jelly, or if the jelly could not be got, a decoction of 

 the leaves in milk, or even of the bark (if it should happen in winter) used by 

 way of gargle. He tried the jelly prepared from the juice, and it had the de- 

 sired effect, and he afterwards recommended it to many of his friends, who 

 obtained similar relief from it. From a particular observation of its effects 

 during the attack of inflammatory angina, it operated by perspiration, and in 

 that way carried off the disorder. 



Several Electrical Experiments, made at various Times, before the Royal Society, 

 By the Rev. J. T. Desaguliers, LL. D., F.R.S. N° 460, p. 661. 



The first of these experiments were made before the R. S. May 14, 1741 ; 

 and were adapted to prove what the Doctor had mentioned in one of his former 

 papers concerning electricity, that electrics per se would not receive the electri- 

 city of a rubbed tube, so as to carry on to a distance ; but that, if those bodies 

 were changed into non-electrics, they would then receive and convey the 

 electricity of the rubbed tube, in the same manner as all other conductors of 

 electricity do. 



The 2d set were made before the Society, on Thursday, May 28, J 74 1 ; in 

 order to prove that it is not the quantity of matter in bodies, that makes them 

 more or less receptive of electricity, and conductive of it, but entirely their 

 quality. 



