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then forced her to let him go. He lay burning thcrr for 

 three days. Not that there was any appearance of tire 

 outwardly, but only a smoke ascending from his carcass, 

 till it was burnt to ashes : except only a small part of; 

 his bones which were cast into a pit. 



Grace Peit was a fisherman's wife, of the parish of St. 

 Clement's, in Ipswich, about sixty. She had a custom. 

 for several years of going down stairs every night, after 

 she was undrest, to smoke a pipe. Her daughter, who 

 lay with her, did not miss her till the morning, April 10 ? 

 1744> when going down stairs she found her mother's 

 body extended over the hearth, with her legs on the 

 deal floor, and appeared like a block of wood burning 

 vttih a glowing fire without flame. The neighbours, 

 coming in at her cries, found the trunk of the body in a. 

 manner burnt to ashes. It then appeared like a heap of 

 charcoal covered with white ashes : the head, arms, legs, 

 aad thighs were also much burnt. A child's clothes on 

 one side of her, and a paper skreen on the other, were 

 untouched. The deul floor also on which her legs lay 

 was neither singed nor discoloured. 



?6. Almost as strange, though not attended with any 

 ill consequence, was the following incident In Novem- 

 ber, Mrs. Susanna Sewall, wife to Major Sewall, in New ' 

 England, observed a strange flashing of sparks in all the 

 apparel she put off, which continued till Candlemas.?. 

 In the company of many persons she sent for several.. 

 parts of her wearing apparel, aiid when they were, 

 slraken, sparks flew out, making a noise much like bay- 

 leaves thrown into the fire. One spark lit on Major 

 Sewall's thumb-nail, without any heat, and continued, 

 at least a minute, before it went out. They caused 

 Mrs. Sewall one (fay 10 put on her sister Diggers petti-. 

 caat ; and when she put it oil at Bight, it sparkled as her 

 to do, 



27. There is no body but may be by fire converted ; 

 intogla^s; not excepting gold itself. And this is the 

 last effect, of fire : no art can carry the change of a,- 

 body any fsrtlier 



