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maming in the Cranmm but a fmall quantity of black pii^ 
tFid Matter. This to the beft of my remembrance is the 
fumm of all. He had neither Spafmus nor Ccnvulfions. 
Qt any par<t all the time of his illnefs. 
IIT. Fart of a Letter from Mr Ralph Thorcsbyy. 
F. R. S. to the Pubiifher, concerning fever al ob- 
fervabks in his Mufeum, near Leeds /V York^ 
' ffiirc. 
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1 Remember that upon perufal «of the Catalogue of 
tlie Natural Curiolities in my poor Mufaum^ you 
defired a more .particular account of the Skin of the 
FiJIms Stomach ivom. the Indie f of the Crj/Jial, and the 
ways of its Concretion 5 of the Iron turned into Ore ^ and 
of the Olfoedra from the Copper Mines in Sweden. The 
firfl: was given me by Mr Robert Mi'dglej of this Town, 
an Ingenious Apothecary, who made 5 Voyages as Sur- 
geoa into the Ead Indies* It is the outward Skin of the 
Maw of a Fifli that was taken at Macajfar^ Febr* i 6lh and 
was given him at Batavia by a Dntch-man^ ,who took it 
out of the FiQi. That the Fibres or Vefiels do curioully 
and naturally refemble a Tree, with its Stem, Branches, 
LearveSi &e. will appear by the enclofed figure of it, 
which, tho but flenderly performed, is the ^ft I have 
time to do- now, and is fp like the Original that it wilL 
feve the labour of any further defcription, (for 'tis exaft- 
ly the bignefs and ftiape of this Draught, ) fave that the 
Skin is very thin, whitifb, and tranfparent, and the Veins 
that compofe the Stem and greater Branches, are uow ra- 
liier Black than dark Red, as I prefume they wer« at firft, 
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