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playing at this game, with one or more of the tali lying upon the back part of 

 her hand, while the rest appear as having fallen oft' from it towards the floor. 

 The 2d article, is a rule with 4 joints, each of which contained about 5 inches 

 9 tenths of our measure. He thinks there was another in 2 parts, which an- 

 swered to the same proportion. 3. A weight, inscribed on one side eme, and on 

 the other habebis. 4. A small bolla d'oro, which (after that in the late Dr. 

 Middleton's collection, and another preserved at Rome) is the 3d known to be 

 extant in Europe. 5. A little figure like a Faunus, excepting that about the 

 head it had something of the character of the Minotaur, viz. large curls on the 

 forehead, and several muscular protuberances, or tori, under the throat. 6. A 

 figure in relievo of a man sitting with a bowl in his hand, which has been 

 thought a Socrates. 7. An antique painting of a muse, with a capsula near 

 her, containing some volumes, from which hang labels showing the titles of the 

 works. The same representation appears in another painting kept in a different 

 part of the palace. 8. Some pieces of fine paper, coloured red on one side, and 

 black on the other, found upon the breast of a skeleton ; thought, by Signor 

 Pademi, not to be of the charta papyracea, but of that of silk, cotton, or linen. 

 9. A flat piece of white glass, taken off" from near the extremity of the sheet, 

 as appears from the curvature and protuberant thickness of one of its sides above 

 the other parts. 



' 'Mr. N. then mentions a few of the chief paintings, the same as have been 

 ilbttced in former accounts printed in these Transactions. 



XIV, On the Effects of a Storm oj Thunder and Lightning, in the Parishes of 

 Looe and Lanreath, in Cornwall, on June TJ , 1756; in two Letters. From 

 the Rev. Mr. Dyer of Looe, and the Rev. Mr. Milles of Duloe, in Cornwall, 

 p. 104. 



On this occasion, the lightning is described as more like darting flames of 

 fire, than flashes of enkindled vapour. At Bucklawren, a village on the top of 

 a hill, about 2 miles from Looe, a farm house was shattered in a most sur- 

 prizing and destructive manner. Some elm trees too, near the house, were 

 struck and furrowed from top to bottom, and the ground at their roots torn up 

 as if done with the plough. 



Another was struck and damaged in a similar manner, in the parish of Lan- 

 reath, about 6 miles ofi^^ and 2 men in it much burnt and hurt. 



XF'. Of the Peat pit near Neivbury in Berkshire \ in an Extract of a Letter 

 from John Collet, M. D. p. lOQ. 



This peat moss, which is about 9 miles in length, and near half a mile broad^ 



