roL. xxvrri.] philosophical transaction-s. 6q 



An Account of a Woman who had lain 6 Days covered with SnoWj without re- 

 ceiving any Nourishment, &c. By Mr, Samuel Bowdich. N° 337, art. 3Q, 

 p. 265. 



Joanna Crippen, of Chard stock in Dorset, being a spinner of worsted, and 

 going home on the 24th of January, with some work, but it snowing very hard, 

 and ^eing very deep, she was forced to lie down under a hedge, having lost one 

 of her shoes ; and her clothes, which were very mean, were by the brambles 

 and thorns torn almost quite off her back: in which place she lay from Monday 

 evening about 6 o'clock, until Sunday following about 4 in the afternoon, and 

 then was discovered by some of our neighbours, who went out with poles, 

 shovels, &c. to search for her ; and after some time spent in it, at last found her 

 buried in 4 feet deep of snow. One of the men thrusting at her with his pole, 

 found she was there, and alive. She immediately spoke, and begged he would 

 not push her too hard, for she was almost naked; and desired that some of the 

 women would come to her, and take her out, which was accordingly done ; 

 when they found her without stockings or shoes, an old whittle about her 

 shoulders, with a large hole in it, which she had eat through; the snow melting 

 down on her she drank to quench her thirst. She had a mortification on one 

 of her great toes, but she now is very hearty, and in a feir way of a perfect re- 

 covery. She was very sensible at the first taking her out, and still continued so; 

 and she knew every body perfectly well : and yet she had taken no manner of 

 food all the time of her being in the snow* 



An Account of the Subsiding, or Sinking down, of Part of a Hill, near Clogher 

 in Ireland, By the Bishop of Clogher, F. R. S. N° 337, art. 31, p. 267. 



Let ST, pi. 2, fig. II, represent part of the ridge of a hill, gradually rising 

 from s to T, for near half a mile; and stwv the north side of the hill, with a 

 declivity from s to v, and from t to w. The perpendicular height at x to the 

 plain of the bottom at y, 1 50 feet, and the slope line or hypothenuse xy, 630 

 feet. The declivity pretty uniform from x to l, and from l to y considerably 

 steeper; the bank aefd overgrown with shrubby wood; all the ground on the 

 side of the hill being firm, green, and' arable; of a mixed soil, clay, and gra- 

 vel, but more clayey. 



On Tuesday the 10th of March, 1712-13, in the morning, the people ob- 

 served a crack in the ground like a furrow made with a plough, going round 

 from A by BC to D^ They imputed this to what they call a thunderbolt, because 

 there had been thunder and lightning on Monday night. But on Tuesday even- 



