136 ANIMALS KIELED . IW. 
Confidering thefe facts, and allowing their juit 
value, we cannot deny that there is a refemblance 
between the {tate of dry wheel animals, and that 
of the animals we have named, with refpect to 
appearance, perfect immobility, and complete 
inaction of their whole members. But there is 
feen a moft remarkable and fenfible difference, 
which muft create a great diftinétion between 
them. In animals torpid from cold, whatever is 
the agent depriving them: of fenfation and mo- 
tion, it only does fo by deranging the neceflary 
harmony between the fluids and folids; yet it 
does not derange them: fo far as to deftroy what 
conftitutes their fluidity or folidity. The fame 
harmony fubfifts in the inmoft parts of the body. 
f have repeatedly opened newts, frogs,. toads, 
torpid by cold, and apparently dead ; and I have 
found, that notwithftanding the blood did not 
circulate through the limbs, it continued to cir 
culate in the large veflels, though with extreme 
languor. Ifa greater degree of cold has ftiffen- 
ed the folids, if it has coagulated the fluids, thea 
jt is certain that the animals perifh. This, bee 
fides having been found by others in many in- 
fects, I have myfelf feen in the toads, frogs, and 
newts, of which I {peak (1). 4 
(1) It is dificult to allow this its full extent. Blu- 
menbach hada frozen frog which revived. Volta had fe- 
veral: 
