igO ' PHILOSOPHICAL TEANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1742. 



well discover, his endeavours being attended with much pain and difficulty ; how- 

 ever, from its branchy top, he was inclined to think it somewhat pendulous. 



Beneath, adjoining to this fungus, was another pretty large excrescence, 

 neither sensible nor spongy, as the former, but of a solid uniform contexture. 

 Its projection from the abdomen was about one-third of an inch, and if a sec- 

 tion were there made parallel to its basis, it would be of an elliptical figure. In 

 shape and dimensions it somewhat resembled the glans penis, its surface being 

 covered with the same fine membrane, and had a small indenture in the top of 

 , it, but it was not so large, and had no aperture in it. 



Suspended to this glans, like the omentum to the ventricle, was a large 

 membrane of a semilunar figure, loose, flexible, and, when turned up, capable 

 ' of covering some part of it. Its texture nearly resembled that of the praepu- 

 tium, or was somewhat thicker. There was likewise a small cord or frasnum, 

 which arising from the circumference of this membrane, and bisecting the above 

 glans, terminated under the fungus. About half an inch below this membrane, 

 was a wrinkled extuberance resembling a scrotum, but of an uncertain magni- 

 tude, great or small, as the descent of the infant's intestines, which having 

 broken their natural confines, form an unseemly roll from one inguen to the 

 other. Its situation was about the upper edge of the os pubis, which, on ex- 

 amining this part, he found greatly deficient, and he was apt to believe, from 

 the great chasm which he perceived there, it must be entirely wanting. 



The next thing to be observed was the anus. He found the situation of this 

 part more forward than usual, at least by 2 inches ; and he conjectures that 

 the rectum, from this position, must take its course nearly through the chasm 

 of the OS pubis. 



Besides all these inconveniencies, to complete the child's misery, there was a 

 perpetual distillation of urine from some unseen passages under the fungus, ex- 

 citing by its acrimony, every moment, pains and excoriations. 



To conclude : its sex was so imperfect, and obscurely represented, that it 

 received no baptism till 4 months after it was born; when its parents, flattering 

 themselves that nature might take a turn some time or other for the child's ad- 

 vantage, gave it an appellation applicable to either sex, as time and circum- 

 stances should require. 



A true Copy of a Paper, in the Hand-writing of Sir Isaac Newton, found among 



the Papers of the late Dr. Halley, containing a Description of an Instrument for 



observing the Moons Distance from the fixed Stars at Sea. N° 465, p. 155. 



In fig. 9, pi. 14, PftRS denotes a plate of brass, accurately divided in the 



limb Da, into -^ degrees, ^ minutes, and -^ minutes, by a diagonal scale ; and 



the 4- degrees, and ^ minutes, and -iV minutes, counted for degrees, minutes, 



