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.tainincrearcsj.and the next feven dfcreafes ; but I doubt 
their Obfervation is not cxa6b, and I iul'ped that they 
fay it, to feem to know fomething fingiilar. . Befides 
there are none there that have themielves. obferved it 
long enough, to aiiirmany thing of that kind certainly. 
If there is any ground in that Obfervation, it fcciTis to 
be, that in the hotted: Summers it increafes, and the 
more moderate ones it cjecreafes, ther^ being then lefs 
melted Snow ; in which cafe it is at prefenr, as vve know 
. of late the Summers have been moderate. [See Fhuojoph, 
Tra/^fa^. Numb. 49 and ic6,] 
Vni. ^ Brief TSiarrath^e of the Shot of Robert 
Fielding with a Iviu^ket^'Bullet^ and its firan^e 
manner of coming out of his Head^ where it had lain 
near Thirty Tears, Written by Hmfeif, 
A t the firll: Nervberry Figlit, in the Time of the late 
Civil Wars, the DoSior was iliot by the Right 
Eye on the Os Petrofam^ by the Orbit of the Eve to the 
Skull, which was likewife broke, with great Etiiidon of 
Blood from the Wound, Mouth and Nolfnls. 
The Surgeon carefully probing the VVound for tlic 
difeovery of , the Euliet, but failing of his inrenrion, on 
the third day after the Shot, plac’d him Elorizontal to 
the Sun ^ by which means depredmg t!ic broken Skull 
with the Probe, he could fee the Palpitation of the Brain, 
but could not difeoverthe Bullet. 
When tl'Vc DoTor begaato grow cold, his do-'- 
fed up, and 10 continued for the dpace of half a Year, 
rill "iTiany Fradure.^; of Bones were come out of t!ic 
Wound, Mouth and Nolfrils ; and afcerwards'whcn- 
foev^er. a Scale of .Bone w^as to .come out, his- Mock h 
would 
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