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in the night-time, and a hardish mass of flesh, seemingly about 8 inches long, 

 was discharged through the old opening in her belly. The lump was rather 

 thicker than an ordinary man's wrist, and which, being opened, contained all 

 the bones of a foetus, of about 4 months' growth. 



At this time the woman was much emaciated, occasioned by the large dis- 

 charge of pus from the wound ; and what was much more extraordinary, what- 

 ever she ate or drank came half-digested through the opening. White bread, 

 or better diet, came through in that manner ; but coarse rye-bread, or such-like, 

 was not digested at all. For which reason, the poor woman must have inevitably 

 perished, had she not been supported by a charitable gentleman's family in the 

 village, with diet fit for her miserable circumstances. 



She continued to discharge her excrement in this manner for 6 months, and 

 then that symptom left her; after which the ulcer was kept open other 6 

 months, when it dried up of itself naturally, with a very firm but small cicatrix. 



Of the Giants' Causeway* in Ireland. By the Rev. Richard Pococke,-jf LL.D., 

 Archdeacon of Dublin, and F.R.S. N" 485, p. 124. 



The sea-clifFs are very high thereabouts, but what is called the Causeway is a 

 low head, extending from the foot of the cliffs into the sea like a mole. This 

 head does not appear at first so grand as it is represented in the views engraved 

 of it ; but when one comes to walk upon it, and consider it more attentively, it 

 appears to be a stupendous production of nature. The head ends in 1 points : 

 Dr. P. measured the more western to the distance of 36o feet from the cliff, and 

 it appeared to extend about 6o feet farther, which he could not measure, as the 



• This causeway is before taken notice of inN" 199, 212, 235, and 241 of these Transactions. 



Orig. 



f Dr. Richard Pococke, a relation of the learned orientalist, was the son of Mr. R. P., seques- 

 trator of the church of All-Saints in Southampton, and head master of the free-school there, where 

 our author was bom, 1704 ; from which school he was removed to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 

 Here he took his degree of ll.d. in 1733. In 1737 he began his travels to tlie East, where he 

 spent 5 years, returning in 174..'. The year following he published the first part of his travels; and 

 in 174-5 came out the 2d vol. of the same, which he dedicated to the Earl of Chesterfield ; who being 

 then made lord lieutenant of Ireland, Dr. P. attended him thither as domestic chaplain, by whom he 

 was soon after appointed arch-deacon of Dublin. In the duke of Devonshire's administration he was 

 promoted to the bishoprick of Ossory, in 1750' j and to the see of Meath in 1765 by the duke of 

 Northumberland ; but the same year he died of an apoplectic fit, while on a visitation, at 6\ years 

 of age. 



His Travels are justly held in great esteem. He was a great traveller, and visited other parts, as 

 well as the East, and the course of the Nile a considerable length. He had also some other papers, 

 besides the above, in the Philos. Trans., and elsewhere. And among the manuscript treasures in 

 the British Museum are several volumes (481 1. . . . 4827), the gift of bishop Pococke, of curious lite- 

 rary and antiquarian researches. 



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