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incapable of being affected by the galvanic action. 

 " I have frequently," says Hearne, " seen frogs dug 

 up with the moss, frozen as hard as ice ; in which 

 state the legs are as easily broken off as a pipe- 

 stem, — but," he adds, " if they be permitted to freeze 

 again they are past all recovery." 



Captain Franklin also notices the resuscitation of 

 fishes after being frozen. 



" It may be worthy of notice here, that the fish froze as 

 they were taken out of the nets, and in a short time became 

 a solid mass of ice ; and by a blow or two of the hatchet 

 were easily split open, when the intestines might be removed 

 in one lump. If in this completely frozen state they were 

 thawed before the fire, they recovered their animation. This 

 was particularly the case with the carp, and we had occasion 

 to observe it repeatedly, as Dr. Richardson occupied him- 

 self in examining the structure of the different species of 

 fish, and was always, in the winter, under the necessity of 

 thawing them before he could cut them. We have seen a 

 carp recover so far as to leap about with much vigour, after 

 it had been frozen for thirty-six hours." — p. 248. 



Nay, it may be stated that the same effect is pro- 

 duced on the insect tribe. It is reported by Mr. 

 Ellis, that at the Hudson's Bay factory, a black 

 frozen mass of a peat-like substance being brought 

 before the fire and thawed, there came from it a 

 cloud of living musquitoes. Captain Buchan ob- 

 served myriads of insects frozen on the surface of a 

 lake in Newfoundland, and embodied in the solid 

 ice ; the next day, by the powerful rays of the sun 



