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VL An Account of a Stone taken out of a Horfe, 
at Bofton in New England, in the Tear » 7 z 4» 
By the Paul Dudley , Efq^, F. R. S. 
T he Owner of the Horfe never perceived that he 
aird any thing, till within a few Days betore he 
dyed, and then fufped:ed that he might be troubled 
with the Gravel or Stone, by the great Pain the Horfe 
Teem’d to be in, when he ftaled or dung’d ; for he would 
groan and fweat prodigioufly. Upon w hich he got a 
Farrier, who applied fomething to break the Stone; 
but in a very Ihort time the Horfe dyed . and the Far- 
rier, being fomewhat curious, was refolv’d to open 
him, and in the great Paunch, found a Stone of 
five Pounds and an half Weight, almoft as round as a 
Globe; for it meafured feventeen Inches round one 
way, and feventeen Inches and three quarters the 
other. The Grit was like your tfeiv Cafile Gnndllone ; 
but was worn fmooth in the Horle’s Stomach, the 
Colour fomewhat like that of a Nutmeg, but more of 
the ordinary Millftone. I could not perl w ade the Owner 
to break it ; but by the lightnefs of it, confidering its 
Bulk, I am apt to think it might be porous w irhm. 
How long thisStone was generating or w’hat produced 
it, is altogether uncertain. The Owmcr of it w as a 
common Carter to a Grid-Mill ; and feme have 
thought that the Horfe might either in his ^rv^vender 
out of the Mill or by licKing or Mill- Stones that 
fometimes ftand up by the fide of the Mill get the 
firft Seed of thisStone into his stomach. The \Veight 
of the Stone at length made a Fradure in the Paunch, 
M m which 
