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The noise made by the buried miners while endeavouring to 
penetrate to Mamonster became gradually louder and louder ; and 
on the fifth day they were able to communicate with Goffin and his 
unfortunate party. They were informed they were 74 in number, 
that none of them had perished, but that they were distressed bya 
dreadful heat, though sunk to the middle of their bodies in water, 
From that time they wrought without light in the mine of Mamon- 
ster, to prevent the inflammation of the air. 
A communication was opened on the 3d of March, at seven in 
the evening, and every precaution was taken to prevent any fatal 
effects from the air, or from fire. After penetrating through a space 
of 5114 feet, a kind of detonation took place, from the escape of 
the condensed air. The unfortunate miners were then taken out, 
and every possible care was taken to prevent any injury from too 
sudden an exposure to the air and light. They were fed with a 
little wine and broth, then wrapped up in flannels, and laid for 
some time on straw in the mine itself before they were brought 
above ground, M. Goffin, though the most exhausted of all, came 
out last, with the engineer, M. Migneron, and young Mathieu 
Goffin. This extraordinary boy had given constant proofs of the 
greatest coolness and courage. , On seeing his mother, he called 
out to her jocosely, What, mother, are you not married again yet 2* 
When the miners were in despair, and bursting into tears, he called 
out to them, ‘* Come along, you behave like children, follow the 
orders of my father. We must work, and show those that survive 
us that we retained our courage to the last moment of our lives,” 
Articre III. 
On the Re-union of Parts accidentally separated from the Living 
Body. By ‘Thomas Thomson, M.D. F.R.S. 
I have of late received various letters containing queries on this 
subject. I conceive that the shostest and most satisfactory mode of 
answering them will be to give an historical detail of all the facts on 
the subject, as far as | am acquainted witi them. 
It is supposed that the first person who discovered that separated 
parts might be again made to adhere as before to the living body 
was Gaspard ‘lagliacozzi, a surgeon of Bologna, and Professor of 
Surgery in that city, who died in 1553. He published two trea- 
tises on the subject, with the following titles. De Curtorum Chi- 
urgia per Insitionem, libri duo.— Chirurgia nova de Narium, 
ium, Labiorumque Defectu, per Insitionem Cutis ex Humeris 
arte hactenus ignota sarciendo. ‘The first of these tracts is. to be 
* Eh bien, mére, n’ etes-vous pas encore remariée ? 
