[281 ] 
fure me, this lad has a lifter about ten, years of age in 
the fame declining ft ate, I am, 
Dear Sir, 
Yours mod affectionately, 
John Browning. 
As new-born children frequently exceed in weight 
this youth of fifteen years, I take the liberty to 
communicate his cafe, believing it will not be 
thought incurious. 
« 
H, Baker. 
XLIII. A Letter' from Mr. Rich, Dunthorne 
to the Rev. Dr. Long, F. R. S. Mafter 
of Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge, and 
Lowndes’j Profeffor of Afironomy and 
Geometry in that Univerjity , concerning 
Comets. 
S I R, 
Cambridge Oct. 5, 1751. 
Read Nov. 14, 
1751. 
T HERE is a manufeript in your 
college library, chiefly aftrological, 
wherein there are five traCts of different authors con- 
cerning comets. One of them, intituled, Tradiatus 
fratris Egidii de cometis (written on account of a 
comet, which appeared in the year of our Lord 
1264) contains thefe paffages relating to its place and 
motion : 
Prolog. 
Nn 
