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N. B. After the d'ifcharge of the whole feet us , the 
patient had milk in her breads, as upon a natural 
delivery. * 
Debenham, Jan. 18. 
I 75°’5 I - , 
Tho. Debe nham. 
XIV. New Dif covert es relating to the Hijlory 
of Coral, hy Dr. Vitaliano Donati. TranJ- 
lated from the French, 'hy Tho. Stack, 
' M. ID. F. R. S. 
Read Feb. 7, § 1 /^lORAL is known to be a marine 
vegetation, which in diape nearly 
refembles a fhrub dripped of its leaves. 
§ 2. It has no roots, but is fupported on a broad 
foot, or bafis, which adapts itfelf, as wax well- 
prefs’d, and dicks to any body in all its parts, with 
inch firmnefs, that it is utterly impoflible to difen- 
gage it. The drape of this foot is not always the 
fame ; but, for the mod part, it approaches to ro- 
tundity (Tab. III. Fig. i. w, n). The only ufe of 
this part is to hold the coral fixed, and fupport it $ 
not to nouridi it : fince there are found pieces cf 
coral, with their feet broken ofij and feparated from 
the place that fupported them ; which pieces never- 
thelefs continue to live, to grow, and to propagate, 
at the bottom of the fea. 
§ 3. From this foot arifes a trunk, generally fin- 
grle, the greated thicknefs of which feldom exceeds 
an inch Paris mealure, as I have been allured by old 
coral-fidiers. 
