Kirby, R. S. [Editor]; Kirby, R. S. [Oth.]: Kirby's Wonderful And Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine Of Remarkable Characters: Including All The Curiosities Of Nature And Art, From The Remotest Period To The Present Time, Drawn from every authentic Source. Illustrated With One Hundred And Twenty-Four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare And Curious Prints Or Original Drawings. Six Volumes (Vol. 2) (London: R.S. Kirby, London House Yard, St. Paul's., 1820)

AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE IN SURGERY, &C. 1
An Ewe belonging to J. Horton, Esq. of Elliot’s-Hall^
in Warwickshire, which brought three lambs in 1800, and
four in 1801 ; and on the 3d of March 1802, yeaned five,
all alive.
In the month of July of the present year, a Sow be-
longing to Mr. Porter, of Marham, Lincolnshire, had a litter
of 25 pigs, all alive ; 18 of which were living a fortnight
after.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE IN SURGERY,
Happened in February 1796, in the county of Meath-
Hospital, on the Coomb A woman of the name of Sarah
Dillon, who had been pregnant for two years and two
months, underwent the Ccefarean operation, and had a full-
grown child extracted, which had not the least appearance
of putrefaction. The woman was shortly after discharged
from the Hospital perfectly healed and well.
Singular Instance of Shells being found under a solid
Stratum of Rock.
In working a stone-quarry, in 1795, belonging to Lord
Ducie, on the road leading from Tedbury to Bath, the re-
mains of a large tree, supposed to be oak, was discovered
15 feet from the surface of the ground, and under a solid
stratum of rock, several feet thick. Near the tree, which
was of a considerable size, and measured in length 20 feet,
(lying in a South-East direction,) an oyster, and some other
shells were found. This is one of the singular occurrences
-which' confound philosophy, and demonstrate the super-
ficialness of human conception.
REMARKABLE aurora borealis.
About eight o’clock on Thursday night, the 21st of
October 1734, a remarkable Aurora Borealis was seen.

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