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KIRBY S WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
neighbouring wood, the wood of Colmont, is inhabited by
spirits. There is even in this canton, a place called “ The
Spirit’s Pit.” The learned of the country pretend, that
upon this spot a Druidical temple once existed, where ado-
ration was paid to a golden calf, which is buried there.
Searches have been made to discover it without effect.
New Times, September 22, 1818.
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RED SNOW AT GENOA.
On St. Joseph’s Day, 1678, on the mountains called La
Langhe, there fell, on the white snow, that lay there before,
a great quantity of red, or if you please, of bloody snow.
From which, being squeezed, there came a water of the
same colour. Communicated by Sig. Sarotti, the Venetian
Resident there, to Mr. Boyle.
Philosophical Transactions, Vol. XII. 1678. p. 976.
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A MAN SWALLOWING IRON AND STONES.
In a letter, dated Cardigan, November 4, 1746, it gives
an account of Reeves Williams, a Welshman, in the year
1746, a native of Cardigan, calling himself the Man Ostrich,
then about twenty-seven years of age, a labouring man,
a stout hale fellow, of very ruddy complexion, exhibited him-
self at sixpence a head ; when he swallowed four pieces of
iron, of an inch and a quarter long, and three quarters of
an inch broad, and of considerable thickness. These be
had made by the smith of the town to fit his throat, and
always carried some of them about him. Besides these, he
swallowed stones, coach-nails, halfpence, and many other
things of the kind. Having satisfied curiosity in that part
of the country, he was then about setting out, to exhibit
himself in London.
British Magazine, November 1746. p. 344.
KIRBY S WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
neighbouring wood, the wood of Colmont, is inhabited by
spirits. There is even in this canton, a place called “ The
Spirit’s Pit.” The learned of the country pretend, that
upon this spot a Druidical temple once existed, where ado-
ration was paid to a golden calf, which is buried there.
Searches have been made to discover it without effect.
New Times, September 22, 1818.
••>zzzzzzzzzzzzz<-
RED SNOW AT GENOA.
On St. Joseph’s Day, 1678, on the mountains called La
Langhe, there fell, on the white snow, that lay there before,
a great quantity of red, or if you please, of bloody snow.
From which, being squeezed, there came a water of the
same colour. Communicated by Sig. Sarotti, the Venetian
Resident there, to Mr. Boyle.
Philosophical Transactions, Vol. XII. 1678. p. 976.
■>zzzzzzzzzzzzz<*
A MAN SWALLOWING IRON AND STONES.
In a letter, dated Cardigan, November 4, 1746, it gives
an account of Reeves Williams, a Welshman, in the year
1746, a native of Cardigan, calling himself the Man Ostrich,
then about twenty-seven years of age, a labouring man,
a stout hale fellow, of very ruddy complexion, exhibited him-
self at sixpence a head ; when he swallowed four pieces of
iron, of an inch and a quarter long, and three quarters of
an inch broad, and of considerable thickness. These be
had made by the smith of the town to fit his throat, and
always carried some of them about him. Besides these, he
swallowed stones, coach-nails, halfpence, and many other
things of the kind. Having satisfied curiosity in that part
of the country, he was then about setting out, to exhibit
himself in London.
British Magazine, November 1746. p. 344.