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into the coal-mine, a cup of broth and a piece 

 of bread and cheefe, 



2. It is not known whether he had any eva- 

 cuations in the coal-pit, no marks of them 

 having been difcovered. 



3. There is no doubt that he could fee, at 

 the time when he was found, as he gave alTu- 

 rances of it to the men, notwithftanding the . 

 Cumefaction and protrufion of his eyes. 



4. The compafs of the cavity which he had 

 dug, and where he was laid upon his belly, at 

 the time when the men reached him, was three 

 yards in length, and two in width. The ftratum 

 of coal is about two fcez thick. There was a 

 .communication between the place where he 

 was confined, and another pit. But as the paf- 

 fage was eighty yards long, and in no part more 

 than eight or ten inches wide, the mouth of the 

 pit alfo, into which he had defcended, being 

 ftopt, and the body of earth, through which 

 he had dug, thrown behind him, no circulation 

 of air could pofTibly take place. And tHe truth 

 of this conclufion is evinced by the ftate of the 

 air, in the other pit, to which this pafiagc led. 

 For it was there fo foul as to extinguifli the 

 candles, which the workmen carried down, 

 in order to come at Travis, by the v/ay which 

 they denominate, the air gate.\ 



5. The 



X The ventilation of this fubterranean pafiRge mighf, 

 |>€rhaps, have been expedited, and the me^buis almoU 



i i 4 inftaptly 



