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and always when the Clyfter came away, he got fome 
Water made along with it : This Symptom went off 
on the feventh or eighth Day. He is now perfeftly 
well recover'd, following his Bufinefs, and finds no 
Inconvenience from the want of the Part of the Spleen 
which he loft. The Wound through his Arm was 
alfo quickly cured. 
IV. A Letter from Benjamin Cook, F. R. S. 
to Peter Collinfon, F. R. S. concerning a 
Ball of Sulphur fuppofed to be generated in 
the Air. 
Newport ( Ifle-IVight ) July 9. 17 33. 
T>ear SIR , 
T H E great Heats we have lately differ'd, were 
ufher'd in by a very gloomy Night of almoft 
continual Lightning, accompanied with very loud 
Claps of Thunder, which, as ufual, were towards the 
Morning follow'd by very heavy Showers of Rain. 
Early next Day, in a Meadow near the Sea-fhore, far 
from any Houfe, and where it has not been known 
that any Improvement has been carried on, a Husband- 
man found a beautiful yellow Ball lying on the Turf, 
which he gladly took up, in hopes itwould well reward 
him for (looping. 
But it prov'd to be of Sulphur, of which it fmelt 
uncommonly ftrong. It was frofted, as it were, all 
over with an Eftorefcence of fine, fhining, yellowifh 
Cryftals, which foon fell off with the lighted Touch. 
It 
