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Diflance, which I would certainly have meafured, if I 
had had proper Inflruments. And if others, who are 
more skilled in thefe Affairs, have made the like Ob- 
fervation, 1 fhall no longer doubt of the Moon’s hal- 
ving an Atmofphere. 
Brijiol, Beb. 19 , 
1725. 
III. Sceletmi duorum Humanoruni petrefaBorum 
pars. Ex Epijlola Joh. Jac. Scheuczer, M, T>. 
S. 5. ad Dom, Hans Sloane, Saronettumy 
S, r. (Pr. 
N o ST I, Vir ExpertiiTime, ex hominum diluvio 
fubmerfonuin genere paucas fuperftites eflfe reli- 
quias. Neque ego hadenus in numerofa fatis colic- 
dione plures habui quam binas dorli vertebras, atro- 
nitentis fplendoris, petrefadas. Nunc autem, 
rrv^yi Mufeolo meo illatum, lapidi fiffili Oenmgejifi 
immerfum ?^€i-]'Ccvov, omni attentione digniffimum, in 
quo diflinde cernere licet, non vagse imaginationis (i- 
mulacra, fed capitis human! a quovis alio animanti- 
um genere diftindivi partes bene multas, reapfe refi- 
duas, cranii ambitum, os frontis, ofla fincipitis, 
occipitis, orbitam oculi, bafeos cerebri Sc medullse 
oblongatse prominentiam interiorem offis 
occipitalis, qus cerebelli lobos feparat, colli verte- 
bras numero 7, partim dehudatas, partim lapideo cor- 
tice tedas. Sc eft haec veluti orthographica fedio pofte* 
rioris capitis partis# 
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