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ed near half an Hour. It broke the Stalks of all 
the Beans and Wheat within that Circumference, 
and Ruined as much Glafi at Major Hanhurys Houfe, 
as coft Four Pounds Repairing fome of the Hail 
were Eight Inches about , their Figure very irregu- 
lar and unconftanr, (everal of the Hailftones being 
Compounded, 
IX. An Account of a Faetus, ^voided by tht 
Zflcered Nai/il of a Negro in Nevis, by 
Mr. James Brodie j CommnnicaUd by Dr. 
Prefton. 
SIR, 
IN the Ifland of Nevu, in the Weft-InditSt there 
was a Negro Woman belonging to one Captain 
Mead ^ whd after one Year and halfs being with 
Child, was at the laft, to a wonder relieved by the 
Navil, in this manner ; about the 17th Month, tlie 
Woman being believed to be Hydropical, by reafon 
of her pafliog her time fo far, and of, the great 
(welling of her Belly. Her Navil did begin to 
Swell and Impoftumate, fo that moft People did be- 
lieve Ihe would dye by that. It did Tumifie and 
grow livid, fo that the Surgeon was unwilling to 
meddle with it ; but by reafon of the Importuni- 
ty of the Mailer of the Woman, who was wit 
ling to try all ways to fave her Life, he was com- 
ing to open it, but in that time it did break of it felf, 
and void fome quantity of Ichorous Matter, and then 
leave off, but the Woman had (ome eafe by it then ; 
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