172 ANIMALS KILLED IV, 
two days intervened between the animation of the 
firft and laft. The whole do not revive: fome 
are disfigured. and lacerated, part are always fo 3 
but fome apparently entire and unhurt remain 
motionlefs. Refurrection is affected by the ftate 
of the weather: it is accelerated by heat, and re- 
tarded by cold ; but here alfo are irregularities. 
It may be ufeful to defcribe the fymptoms 
which announce the revival of the eels. The firft 
indication of returning life is a deviation from 
the ftraight lines their dead bodies formed: the 
head and tail begin to curve, though the reft of 
the body continues in a ftraight line. Some- 
times the two extremities do not bend: the 
body only becomes a little arched in the middle. 
One will gently ofcillate, while the other does 
not move: fometimes they approach each other 
until a circle is formed by the extremities touch- 
ing. One extremity will reft on the other, or 
glide over it, or both are entwined together: 
fometimes the whole body is rolled into a fpiral 
in more or fewer, in wider or narrower volutions. 
Thefe bendings, arcs, ofcillations, circles, twin- 
ings, glidings, volutes; thefe contortions are form- 
ed and deftroyed, and repeated at firft very lan- 
guidly, then in a manner more lively and percep- 
tible. This ftrange variety of motions, with 
others which it is unneceflary to defcribe, conti- 
nues during all the time they live. ‘Whence it 
appears they have nothing that may properly be 
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