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whose situation is more superficial ; that is, on this side the ligament, in which 

 is contained the synovia. 



[Then follows a detail of the case, the insertion of which in these Abridge- 

 ments was deemed unnecessary, after the preceding observations, and account 

 of the successful result of the operation of cutting through the capsular li- 

 gament.] 



LXIIL Extract of a Letter from Mr. William Pye, dated Manilla, Oct. 1st, 

 1754, giving some Account of that Place, p. 458. 



Manilla is one of the largest of the Philippine islands, and the city is much 

 larger than Oxford ; it has 2 universities in it, and is inhabited only by Spa- 

 niards. The houses are large, and built very strong ; the ground-floor is stone ; 

 the walls of a prodigious thickness ; all above is wood, and so contrived, that 

 every piece of timber has a connection with each other, all over the house : 

 they are let into one another, and joined together, that the earthquakes, which 

 are very terrible and frequent, may not throw them down. The convents are 

 likewise very strong and handsome. The suburbs are very extensive, and well 

 inhabited. 



In the year 1750 there was an earthquake here, which lasted 3 months, with 

 almost continual tremblings, which at last broke out in an eruption, in a small 

 island in the middle of a large lake, all round which the bottom is unfathomable. 

 The third day after the commencing of the eruption, there arose 4 more small 

 islands in the lake, all burning ; and about a mile distance from one there is a 

 continual fire, which comes out of the water, where there is no ground, for 

 upwards of 100 fathoms deep. This happened but 4 years ago. 



LXIF. An Essay on the fVaters of the Holy Well at Malvern, Worcestershire. 



By J. Wall, M. D. p. 459. 



[Reprinted in this Author's Medical Works, with some important additions 

 relative to the chemical analysis of the Malvern-water, by his son Dr. Martin 

 Wall, of Oxford.] 



LXV. On the Case of a Man who Died of the Effects of the Fire at Eddystone 

 Lighthouse. By Mr. Edward Spry, Surgeon at Plymouth, p. 477- 

 On the 4th of Dec. 1755, at 3 in the afternoon, Henry Hall, of East-stone- 

 house, near Plymouth, aged g4 years, of a good constitution, and extremely 

 active for one of that age, being one of the 3 unfortunate men, who suflered 

 by the fire of the lighthouse at Eddystone, Q miles from Plymouth, having been 

 greatly hurt by that accident, with much difficulty returned to his own house. 

 Mr. S. being sent for found him in his bed, complaining of extreme pains all 



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