IV. AND REVIVED, 175 
died inftantaneoufly, and thofe dead at the time, 
loft the property of refurrection. This did not 
‘ furprife me: for almoft all were broken or disfi- 
gured by the traverfing fhock. There was a dif- 
ference in the refults, if the blighted corn was fub- 
jected to the fame experiment: few revived when 
the grains had been previoufly macerated: if the 
grains were dry, many recovered life. 
As falt water, urine, and vinegar are unfit for 
reviving the anguillz, at leaft if they have been 
only a fhort time dry, fo are they fatal to them 
when revived ; not fo inftantaneoufly, however, 
as to other animalcula, for eels will move in them 
fome hours after immerfion. 
A vacuum does not prejudice their refurrec- 
tion, whether the firft time after proceeding from 
the grain or in future: only, refurreCtion is not 
fo foon accomplifhed as in the open_air. 
Yhe heat of the fun or the fire at 140° kills 
them in feveral hours: motion and life are al- 
moft immediately deftroyed at 144° or 149°. 
Heat is a more powerful agent on wet grains 
than on dry. ‘The obferver will commonly have 
many eels from grains that have fuffered 1 38° ; 
moft part are killed at that degree if the grains 
are wet. 
When freezing water becomes folid, the eels 
ceale to move. Cold 8° below o does not de- 
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