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ranean between Candia and Cyprus, and then over Antiochetta and Erzroum, 

 and a little to the south of Kars. Which agrees with what is said in the Pe- 

 tersburg Acts, [J. 332. If any allowance is to be made for the moon's accelera- 

 tion, or any other cause, the track here given will be a little different. As Mr. 

 C. cannot make several ancient eclipses, that he has tried, succeed to his mind, 

 without some such supposition, he has done the same with regard to this, viz. 

 45"", at Mr. Whiston's rate of 1™ in 54 years, or thereabouts. Then agreeably 

 to this he finds, that the centre passed more to the south than the former, and 

 went near Tripoli, Aracta, Nisabin, and Ardbil. 



It is much to be wished, that Herodotus had told us where this battle was 

 fought ; that by this means we might have known which of these 2 paths to 

 have preferred. However, as he has not, and there is nothing in either of them 

 that is inconsistent with the history, Mr. C. concludes, from a number of other 

 circumstances besides, that this really was the eclipse foretold by Thales. He 

 was not a little pleased on looking into his papers, to find that Bayer and he 

 agi'eed so exactly in the very year, and he was a stranger to what he had said on 

 that subject, till he saw his account in the volume of the Petersburg Acts. 



If^. The Case of Anne Elizabeth Queriot, of Farts, ivhose Bones were Distorted 

 and Softened. By Ambrose Hosly, M. D. of Paris, p. lQ. 



Anne Elizabeth Queriot, aged 35, native of Paris, was nian-ied in the year 

 1746, was brought to bed in 1747, and for the first time complained of great 

 weakness in the small of her back, loins, and thighs, and could scarcely walk. 



A 2d lying-in, a year after, removed her complaints for about 6 weeks ; after 

 which they returned. In the year 1749, being 2-|- months with child, she was 

 seized with a loss of blood, and miscarried. Two months after, she fell on her 

 left side ; which gave her great pain in the leg, thigh, and hip of that side, and 

 made them swell : but there was neither fracture nor dislocation. Her pains 

 after some time abated ; but the weakness of her limbs continued. She was a 

 3d time with child, and, in the beginning of her pregnancy, had a 2d fall ; 

 which revived her former pains, and caused new pains all over her body, with a 

 swelling, as before. This confined her to her bed, yet her pregnancy terminated 

 favourably, after which the swelling went off; but her limbs were so weak, that 

 she could not bear upon her feet. 



In about 6 months after her last lying-in, her pains returned worse than be- 

 fore ; and about the same time, an abundance of white chalky sediment appeared 

 in her urine ; and the fore-finger of her right hand was observed to be distorted 

 towards the little finger : which was the first appearance of the dissolution that 

 ensued. Soon after the lower extremities began to turn upwards gradually, and 

 almost in a parallel line with her body, and continuing, till in 9 months her 



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