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190 kirby’s wonderful museum.
this, they could not have imagined the figures seen by them in
beech trees to have been the sport of nature, but must have
confessed them to have been the sport of an idle hand. To
the same cause are to be ascribed those figures of crucifixes,
Virgin Mary’s, &c. found in the heart of trees; as, for ex-
ample, the figure of a crucifix, which I saw at Maestricht, in
the church of the White Nuns of the Order of St. Augustin,
said to be found in the heart of a walnut tree, on its being
split with lightning. And it being usual in some countries,
to nail small images of our Saviour on the cross, of Virgin
Mary’s, &c. to trees by the road-side, in forests, and on
commons ; it would be no greater miracle to find any of
these buried in the wood of a tree, than it was to find the
deer’s horn so lodged.
Sir Hans Sloane, in his noble museum, has a log of wood
brought by Mr. Cunningham from an island in the East
Indies, which, on being split, exhibited these words in Por-
tuguese, DA BOA ORA. i. e. Det [Deus] bonam horam.
Phil. Trans. Clark, $c.
AN ACCOUNT OF
A GIGANTIC BOY,
AT WILLINGHAM, NEAR CAMBRIDGE,
BY THE REV. MR. ALMON, MINISTER, AND MR. T. DAWES,
SURGEON, AT HUNTINGDON.
We gave a short account of this boy, in the first volume
of our Museum, page 221, but have now inserted further
particulars. Thomas Hall was the second child of Thomas
and Margaret Hall, and born at Willingham near Cambridge,
October the 31st, 1741. He grew wonderfully for three
quarters of a year, having only the breast sustenance; when
his mother suddenly died, and, as it is supposed, by his
drawing away her vital nourishment.
this, they could not have imagined the figures seen by them in
beech trees to have been the sport of nature, but must have
confessed them to have been the sport of an idle hand. To
the same cause are to be ascribed those figures of crucifixes,
Virgin Mary’s, &c. found in the heart of trees; as, for ex-
ample, the figure of a crucifix, which I saw at Maestricht, in
the church of the White Nuns of the Order of St. Augustin,
said to be found in the heart of a walnut tree, on its being
split with lightning. And it being usual in some countries,
to nail small images of our Saviour on the cross, of Virgin
Mary’s, &c. to trees by the road-side, in forests, and on
commons ; it would be no greater miracle to find any of
these buried in the wood of a tree, than it was to find the
deer’s horn so lodged.
Sir Hans Sloane, in his noble museum, has a log of wood
brought by Mr. Cunningham from an island in the East
Indies, which, on being split, exhibited these words in Por-
tuguese, DA BOA ORA. i. e. Det [Deus] bonam horam.
Phil. Trans. Clark, $c.
AN ACCOUNT OF
A GIGANTIC BOY,
AT WILLINGHAM, NEAR CAMBRIDGE,
BY THE REV. MR. ALMON, MINISTER, AND MR. T. DAWES,
SURGEON, AT HUNTINGDON.
We gave a short account of this boy, in the first volume
of our Museum, page 221, but have now inserted further
particulars. Thomas Hall was the second child of Thomas
and Margaret Hall, and born at Willingham near Cambridge,
October the 31st, 1741. He grew wonderfully for three
quarters of a year, having only the breast sustenance; when
his mother suddenly died, and, as it is supposed, by his
drawing away her vital nourishment.