h ´ ´´ Plato emergit observatus vitro flavo 11 19 5 Solo tubo optico 11 19 31 Vitro cæruleo 11 19 50 Aristarchus emergit 11 21 3 Gassendus incepit emergere observatus vitro flavo 11 25 36 Observatus solo tubo optico 11 25 52 Observatus vitro cæruleo 11 26 11 Gassendus totus extra umbram 11 28 2 Schicardus incipit emergere 11 45 44 Totus extra umbram 11 47 10 Totum Mare Humorum extra umbram 11 46 50 Menelaus extra umbram 11 55 36 Mare Serenitatis extra umbram 11 59 46 Tycho extra umbra observatus vitro flavo 12 00 33 Solo tubo optico 12 00 52 Vitro cæruleo 12 1 14 Incipit emergere Mare Crisium 12 8 31 Totum Mare Crisium extra umbram 12 16 28 Finis eclipsis 12 28 26 Observatio hæc peracta é cœlo claro; umbra autem terræ ita diluta erat, ut maculæ in ea conditæ satis dignoscerentur. CV. _Singular Observations upon the_ Manchenille Apple. _By_ John Andrew Peyssonnel, _M. D. F.R.S. Translated from the_ French. [Read Nov. 16, 1758.] THe cruel effects of the tree called Manchenille are known to all the world: its milk, which the savages make use of to poison their arrows, makes the wounds inflicted with them mortal. The rain, which washes the leaves and branches, causes blisters to rise like boiling oil; even the shade of the tree makes those who repose under it to swell; and its fruit is esteemed a deadly poison. I was informed, as a very extraordinary thing, that a breeding woman was so mad as to eat three of them, which did her very little harm; and this was looked upon as a miracle, and a proof of the surprising effects of the imagination and longings of women with child. But here is a fact, which will scarce be credited by many persons, who have frequented these Islands: which I declare to be true.