(p6p) Nnmk 48. 
Ted with Marble , and many footfteps of Andquky an argument , thac 
Towns fiave flood there in former ages, v/hich have been overwhelmed by 
the Matter caft outof this Mountain. They have alfo found feveral Bridges 
ofPumicc-ftones , doubtiefs made by the flux of the fiery Torrencs, the 
Earth being very much raifed fince. 
Now whether thefe Eruptions are caufcd by adual fubteraneous Fires, 
lighting upon combuftible matter j or by Fire ftruck out of falling and 
breaking ftones ./ whofe fparks meet with Nitro-fulphureousorotherin- 
flamabk fubftances heap'd together in the bowels of the Earth, and by 
the expanfive violence of the Fire forc'd to take more room, and fo burf- 
ting out with the impetuofity we fee ^ may not be unworthy of a Phi- 
lofopher's fpeculation. 
An Account 
Concerning a Wo?nm having a DovkA^ Matrix; as the Puhlljher hath 
En^ifhed it out of French , imtely f rimed Paris^ inhere the Bodf 
w^s opened. 
Thi? Figuref which in the Cut here annes.*d is the I L ) reprfe nts the two 
* It may he , tlm thM , tvMch is by M Vafl'al , PubUJher of this ^ Matrixes 
JRcUtiony ejieem'da fecond mmb^ is nothing d[e , hut the true tOUMjanMar.O 
Matrix lengthened j or that , which by Armmijls is call i Tuba Fal 1 669.by Benoit 
lopii. See, Bartol. Anmm. Reform. I. i. c ij, mi others. Vajfal Chirut*« 
geoDjOpening the Body of a woman of 32.ycarsofage,of a fanguinCon- 
llitutioo , and a mafculin port. Thefe two Matrixes were fo well difpofed 
by an extraordinary contrivance of Nature , that the True one had con- 
ceived eleven feverall times, viz., 7. males and 4» femals, ali born at 
the full time, and all perfedly well form'd but they were at laft folio w'd 
by a brother yet a /ie^//^ , that wasconceivMinanadjund Vterus ^ in a 
place fo little capable of diftenfion,that feekingenlargeraent,afcer it had cau- 
fed to the Mother for two months and an half grievous fympcoms , did at 
laft, being ofthe age of about 3. or 4. months, break prifon, and found 
its grave in that of its mother , by a very great efifufion of blood in the 
whole capacity of her abdomen-^ which call the mother into fuch yiolcnc 
convulfive motions for ; . days together , that fhe dyed of them. Where- 
upon the faid 'Z^aflal, after, having embalmed the parts, he had made 
at his houfe for a whole month together the particular diffedion thereof^ 
before all the moft Curious and knowing Phyfitians, Chirurgeons, Apo- 
thecaries, Mid-wifes, and other Searchers of Nature, that are in 
thought good to prefer ve the Hiftory thereof by committing it and the 
Figure of tJ;e parts fpoken of, to thePrefs, together with a Table, for 
better explanation ; which we think fit here to annex in Latin : 
Vv Yv hFars, 
