Iv. AND REVIVED. -* 137 
I have alfo found a remnant of motion in the 
heart and blood of thefe animals half drowned, 
and doubt not that it continues in bees and flies. 
But if they remain long in water, all internal mo- 
ion is deftroyed, and every hope of recovery is 
gone. It is therefore indubitable, that in thefe 
animals returning to life, the quality which con- 
{titutes the exiftence of the fluids, or folids, is not 
taken away, nor is the harmony that reigns be- 
tween them totally deftroyed. How very diffe- 
rent is it with regard to wheel animals. When 
moft vivacioufly traverfing the fluid, their bo- 
dy refembles a thick jelly; the touch of the 
point of a needle is rum and deftru€tion. When 
dry, the folids are contracted and diftorted, the 
whole body of the animal is reduced to a hard 
fhapelefs atom of matter; pierced by a needle, 
it flies in pieces like a grain of falt- How is iz 
poffible that this atom, whofe folids preferve no 
veftige of their former humidity and pliancy, 
and where the fluids exift no more, how I fay, 
ean we fuppofe, that in this dry and disfigured 
atom, a principle of life remains? Does anima- 
tion exift in a frog, atoad, or a newt, when as 
dry 
veral frozen for months, which ftill exhibited figns of 
Galvanifm ; and the author afterwards kept a number of 
the fame animals two years torpid in fnow. They were 
dry, thrivelled, and friable ; but revived’ on the applica- 
tion of heat.—T. 
