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A/i Ol^prvatio^ of Dr. johudons of Vomphrety ecmmumafedij 
him to JlfnLifter, W hy him fent in a Letter to the Fublijher^ 
comer ning fome Stones of a ferfeU Gold-colour y found in 
Animals. 
THat no page ofthis Letter may be empty (faithMnLz/^r) 
I fhall tranfcribe for you anObfervation olDt.Johnflons. 
In thcGermn Philofophic Ephemerides of the year 1 67 2,1 meet 
with thefe words of Doftorff>i^^//^,Obf.246.pag d^^^.Tfclpdeo 
particulamCalcdivaccim^inflar Aurifoliorum fulgtdi \ thefubjeft 
ofthatObfervacion being an Enumeration and the Defer iption 
of feveral Stones found in divers Animals, as in Doggs, 
.Hoggs,Staggs^and in Cows alfo ; of which laft the now quoted 
words are ail he faith. I do begg Dv.Johnflons pardon for ha- 
ving kept by me two years an Observation ofthis nature,which 
he was pleafed to communicate to me,and which yet was fo fur- 
prifing, thatlhadnot theaffurance toofferittoyou, being in 
this as well as in all other matters, relating to the ph£nofnena of 
Natural Hiftory, very diffident. What reafons I then had to 
doubt of the truth of this Obfervation^he beft knows,and I fliall 
not trouble you with ; being a little more confident fince I 
read the words of D.W^^^d-//^, that the Stones fent me by the 
Learned Doftor were fuch indeed, and not fome Infeds Eggs, 
as I once did verily perfwade my felf they were. 
His Letter bears date April 22. 1672. from Fomphret. 
A Bout this time twelve month (faith the Do^or^ont thmas 
Capidge^ a butcher of Pomphret, killed an Ox for the 
ihamb!cs,in which nothing was obferved preternatural, till the 
Bladder being blown by his fervant, there was fome thing ob- 
ferved flicking totheinfide witha duskifh froth. Keeping the 
Bladder half-blown, the butchers Son, who firft difcover'd it, 
knocked with his hand on the fide and the bottom of the blad- 
der, to make it fettle to the neck, and by lliaking and fqueczing 
it got out the froth, and about tvpo hundred little globular 
ftones of feveral fizes, the biggefl: being about this fo) cir- 
cumference ; others like pin-heads or muftard-feed. He 
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