(ro3) 
4. That Light takes up more time in Travelling from 
the Stars to us, than we in making a Wefl'IndiaYoy2igQ 
( which is ordinarily performed in fix Weeks.) That a 
Sound v/ould not arrive to us from thence in 5-0000 
Years, nor a Cannon-Bullet in a much longer time. 
This is eafily computed, by -allowing ( according to 
Mt. Newton) Ten Minutes for the Journey of Light 
from the Sun hither, and that a Sound moves about 
1 300 Foot in a Second» 
IIL An Account of a Stone of a Prodigious Jt%e 
extraUed by SeSiion out of a Woman s Blad'^ 
der^ noi^ timng^ on the Eighth day of No- 
vember, 1693. Mr. Bafil Wood 5 «Siir- 
geon. 
TH E Perfon who performed this, being prevailed 
upon by fome Friends to give the Curious an 
Account of the extraordinary bignefs and fliape of this 
Stone, has communicated it to ^:he Publiftier of thefe 
Tranfaftions, in the following words. 
This Stone was taken from Mrs, //w^;^<j7#, a Widow 
Gentlewoman , of the Age of about pne and Fifty 
Years , who Lodges in Kings-Head-Chrt in Hollorn. 
Its lliape is not very unlike to a fort of Spring-Purft 
(as they are called) which many People ufe; and its 
furface is indifferently fmooth, excepting only that there 
are Four Protuberances, each of which is about the 
fizeof a Hazel-Nat; thefe feem to have been at firft' 
kller Stones, which falling into the Bladder after that 
the great Stone was almofl: grown to its full bignefs 
there, were joyned to it, firft by adhefion, and at laft 
became all one Body with it. It is alfo very probable 
that 
