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the Shoulder-blades, which refembled thofe of Sheep. 
[See an Article in the Scots Magazine for October 
1748. printed at Edinburgh in 8m] In a Letter 
to me, he adds, that probably this was a [Pelagian 
or] Ocean Fifh, wandring by chance into the Frith 
of Forth > and, by the Tide ebbing, being left upon 
a confiderable Shoal, or flat Sand, near Leith , was 
difeover’d from Land in a State of Diftrcfs ,• where- 
upon feme Fifhermen plunged into the Sea, and 
with a Net furrounded it, and brought it to Shore. 
XXI. A Letter from John Burton M. D. to 
C. Mortimer M. D. & Seer. R. S. concern - 
ing the Extirpation of an Excrefcence from 
the Womb. 
SIR , 
Read July 5.^ HAVE at laft got a Drawing of an Ex- 
I7 5 °- crefcence * growing from the Infide of 
the Os Tine re on the right Side ; which I herewith 
fend you, (fee Tab. I. Fig. 6.) along with as full a id 
perfect an Account of the Cafe as I can. 
The Wife of one Chapman , a Whitefmith, at 
Selby , ten Miles off, upwards of feven Years ago 
lay in of her laft Child, and had a tolerable ealy 
Labour: Soon after which, {he had what fhe called 
the Fluor albtts , that continued ever fince, and in- 
creafed upon her 5 infomuch that fhe fays, fhe has 
fometimes 
* Ic is exaftly the Dimenfions of the Original, which wdghed 
5 Ounce; and a half. That Part below the pricked Line appeared 
out of the Vagina ,• that above reach’d from the Labia to the Of 
Vteri. 
