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in other mines the ore, with great trouble and cost, is dug from the bowels of 

 the earth. The only inconveniency which happens here is, that the sand, which 

 is digged in very great quantities in the fissures, when the ore is blown up, falls 

 with it to the foot of the mountain, and buries or covers it, which they are forced 

 to dig away again ; on which account they always blow up the ore from the 

 bottom of the mountain upwards, for the greater ease of the miners, and to 

 hinder the heaping of the sand at the bottom. They then carry the ore to the 

 neighbouring furnaces, where being roasted, and broken small, they mix it with 

 lime-stone and powdered coal, and smelt it into iron. 



IX. An Extraordinary Case of a Child. By Mr. Richard Guy, Surgeon, p. 34. 

 A child near 7 years of age, having languished, for near 12 months past, of a 

 supposed dropsy, and undergone the most skilful treatment of several eminent 

 physicians unsuccessfully, died in an emaciated state. By desire of the parent, 

 Mr. G. opened the body, expecting to find water, but to his great surprize, 

 there appeared as follows : a large round solid substance, shaped in the form of 

 an egg, weighing 14 lb. 24. oz. of the adipose cellular consistence; some parts 

 of it being more brawny than others. On dividing it through the centre, were 

 found several little cists, containing a meliceratous fluid ; the whole seemed en- 

 veloped in a membrane, which he apprehended to be the omentum, but the ex- 

 tension, from so large a body contained in it, had made it almost lose its reti- 

 cular appearance. It was surrounded with many small blood-vessels, but no 

 considerable ones. It adhered to the peritoneum, the back-bone, and almost all 

 the internal cavity of the abdomen, resting the large end in the pelvis, and 

 greatly compressing the bladder and ureters. The intestines were all crouded 

 together on the right side, in as small a compass as could possibly contain them. 

 The intestine colon passed round the lower part, in the form of an S, which 

 adhered likewise : it also inveloped the right kidney, which appeared something 

 larger than the other ; and on dividing it, he found small stones, not exceeding 

 the size of a large pin's head. The other kidney did not adhere to this sub- 

 stance. The small end pressed upwards against the diaphragm, so hard, as to 

 force the heart close under the left clavicula : the lungs were so confined, as to 

 render only one lobe capable of respiration ; the others appeared as in a still-born 

 child. The liver, gall-bladder, and spleen, were as in health ; the intestines the 

 same ; the mesentery was much extended with blood ; the matrix and ovaria as 

 in their natural state ; and no other parts, that he could discover, affected. He 

 could not discover, on dissection, any nuclei, that might particularly supply, or 

 give rise to, this enormous substance. 



