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would probably escape, either by swimming to, or being left on, rising lands; 

 where, if they met with proper food, and an agreeable climate, they would con- 

 tinue and increase, or otherwise would wander till they found such a country, 

 unless prevented by interposing seas, or impassable rivers. 



All this indeed is barely conjecture: but the bones and teeth of fishes, the 

 multitudes of sea-shells, some of which are petrified, and others not, and the 

 many sea productions found buried in the earth in almost every country, at vast 

 distances from the sea, and even in the midland parts, are demonstrations of the 

 surprising alterations that must have happened as to the disposition of sea and 

 land. 



The present grinder and bones, however they came thither, must have lain in 

 this cliff for many ages; and that the grinder in particular is much larger and 

 heavier than any our late worthy president Sir Hans Sloane has mentioned in 

 N° 403 and 404, of the Philos. Trans, where he gives an account of all the fossil 

 teeth of elephants that had come to his knowledge. None of those mentioned by 

 Mr. Molineux, in his History of Ireland, come near it in weight or size. Our 

 thigh-bones of 6 feet long exceed also, by 2 feet, any ever yet heard of: and, 

 according to Mr. Blair's osteology of an elephant Q feet high, which died at 

 Dundee in Scotland, in the year 1706, and whose thigh-bones were 3 feet in 

 length (Vide Phil. Trans. N° 326,* we may suppose, by the rules of proportion, 

 that the elephant, to which our bones and tooth belonged, was 18 feet in 

 height. 



Of an extra-uterine Conception. By Starkey Myddelton, M. D. 



N° 475, p. 336. 



On the 28th of October last, Dr. M. was sent for to a woman of about 42 years 

 of age. She had been taken with a flooding the day before; which a little sur- 

 prised her, having been very irregular in her menstrual discharges for near a year 

 before. At the same time she complained of a great pain in her belly and loins, 

 with a continual forcing both forward and backward; which still continued, 

 though her flooding was then in a manner stopped. 



He ordered her a gentle paregoric for that night, and the next day he found her 

 in great pain; at which time she said, she had some reason to believe she had 

 conceived with child. 



He then examined her, and found the os tincae entirely close. He was not very 

 curious in examination at this time; taking it for granted, that nature would soon 

 dispose the uterus to discharge its contents, though at present there was not the 

 least appearance of it. He ordered her an anodyne clyster, and a paregoric to be 



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