230..- Mr. Copland’s Account of 
by meansiof the iron fork, Fig. sth. hooking and 
unhooking them. ‘This fork might alfo have been: 
ufed to throw any of the fuel, or any part of the 
body that might not be properly expofed to the 
action of the fire, into it again; and after any - 
fuch parts had feparated from the trunk, they might 
have been by that means laid hold of, and being 
fecured by the chains or bent pieces of iron, repre- 
fented at the bottom of Figs. 1oth. and irth. or 
ftuck upon the points of the double hook, Fig. 
1oth. and then fufpended by the ring, at its top, 
upon one of the large hooks at the bottom or top 
of the large fupport, Fig. 14th. foas to be com- 
pletely confumed; and laftly, the fork might have 
been ufed for turning the whole corpfe round, by 
making it revolve upon the pin at the bottom of 
the ring. See D, Fig. 14th. In the fame manner 
we may fuppofe, when the head dropped off, which’ 
it would almoft always do before it was completely 
confumed, it might have been {fupported in the 
iron ring, Fig. 15th. which feems to have had 
‘another fupport, oppofite t6 the one by which it is 
at prefent fufpended, and which in all probability 
was either hooked on at A, or at B, and which, by 
means of the two upper hooks C, and D, could be’ 
hung upon one or two of the hooks at the bottom 
or top of the fupport, Fig. 14th. 
Figs. 6th. and 19th. feem part of one and the 
fame inftrument, for confuming the bodies of chil- 
dren, or thofe who were. not heavy, by the three. 
hooks 
