In Comb Mountain there is a Pit of a circular form, 
which in the Summer time ufed to have little or no Wa- 
ter in it, and in Winter, as much Water as would fwell 
the furiace to about fourteen or fixteen yards crofs over : 
But now in the midft of Summer it rofe up at lead: a 
yard and a half higher than it was ever known to do in 
the wetted: Winters ^ and overflowing its Banks, it fell 
down the Hill with fueh violence, as to penetrate into the 
very body of a Rocky R.Oad, and dug Pits in it, that will 
bury the biggeft Horfes, and the Road, which was a 
common Highway, is now become irreparable. 
VI. An ObferVation of a Tumor on the Neck, full of 
Hydatides, cured by Mr Anthony Hewnden, 
Surgeon: Communicated by 2)rEdw,Tyfon ? F.^.S. 
A Gentlewoman in London, aged 25 years, had a large 
Wenny Tumor, the Bafts taking its Origin from all 
the lower hinder part of the Skull, ftretebing down the 
Meek near each Jugular, extending it felf almoft as low 
as both Scapulas 5 on the upper part was a Phlegmon. The 
Radix being fo large, I put on a tranfverfe Cauflick the 
length and breadth of the Tumor, intending to feparate 
the Cutis from the Membrane pf the Cifiis $ but it being 
fo thin where the Phlegmon was, oblig’d me to divide the 
Cifiis $ out of which I f%v’d above threefcore HA ‘tides, ol 
the bignefs of a fmall Wallnut : Several more v. : - 0 ken. 
Thefe Hjidatides {worn in a Liquor of the cc nee of 
Whites of Eggs. In this Cifiis I found a lar. intity 
©f Atheromatous and Steatomatous Matter, at its a 
large Sarcomafihz greateft pare I cut off, but feat: re 
the Mufcles of the Neck/ deferr’d it to the- next 
