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Excepting a few old houfes, none of the buildings 
in Aleppo were actually thrown down ; but the walls 
of a confiderable number of houfes have been rent. 
We have had the wetted winter I ever faw in this 
country. The Coic has every-where overflowed its 
banks, and is juft now much higher than it has been 
known to rife for many years. 
LI II. Remarks on the Bovey Coal: In a 
Reiter to the Right Honourable George 
Ear h of Macclesfield, Prejidentof the Royal 
Society . By Jeremiah Millcs, D . D* * 
F. R. S. 
My Lord, 
Read Feb. defcription, which the learned 
176°. profeffor Hollman has given the 
Society *, of two remarkable ftrata of foftil wood in 
Germany, one in the neighbourhood of Munden, in 
the duchy of Grubenhagen, and the other near AL 
lendorf in Hefte, correfponds, in fo many particulars, 
with fome ftrata, difcovered about fifteen years ago, 
in Devonfhire, that it fuggefted to me a doubt, whe- 
ther thofe German ftrata were really (what the 
learned profeffor fuppofes them) foftil wood, and 
formerly a vegetable fubftance, or (what he fays the 
miners call them) foftil coal. The reafons, on which 
this doubt is founded, are fubmitted to the judgment 
of your Lordfhip, and the Society, in the following 
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* See the above, N° xlix. p. 506. 
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