ins PHILOSOPHICAL TKANSACTlONS, - [anNO 1/45. 



way of trial, it appears that they are electrical bodies, or electrics per se? is it not 

 doubtful, since his fingers must be excited considerably in this experiment, whe- 

 ther he did not communicate electricity to them from his hand, rather than excite 

 it in them ? Doubtless the principle is inherent in many other bodies besides 

 animal, possibly in all bodies whatever. But as it is allowed that animals have 

 a gieater quantity of it residing in them than other substances, there seems 

 room to admit the above doubt. 



jin Extrnct, by Mr. Paid Rolli, F. R. S. of an Italinn Treatise, ivritten by the 

 Rev. Joseph Bianch.ini, a Prebend in the City of Verona ; on the Death of 

 the Countess Cornelia Zangari and Bandi, of Ceslna. N° 4/6, p. 447. 



The Countess Cornelia Bandi, in the 62d year of her age, was all day as well 

 as she used to be, but at night was observed, when at supper, dull and heavy. 

 She retired, was put to bed, where she passed 3 hours and more in familiar dis- 

 courses with her maid, and in some prayers; at last, falling asleep, the door was 

 shut. In the morning, the maid taking notice that her mistress did not awake 

 at the usual hour, went into the bed-chamber and called her; but not being 

 answered, doubting of some ill accident, opened the window, and saw the corpse 

 of her mistress in the deplorable condition following: 



Four feet distance from the bed there was a heap of ashes, 1 legs untouched, 

 from the foot to the knee, with their stockings on: between them was the lady's 

 head : whose brains, half of the back part of the skull, and the whole chin, 

 were burnt to ashes ; among which were found 3 fingers blackened. All the rest 

 was ashes, which had this particular quality, that they left in the hand, when 

 taken up, a greasy and stinking moisture. 



The air in the room was also observed cumbered with soot floating in it: a 

 small oil-lamp on the floor was covered with ashes, but no oil in it. 2 Candles 

 in candlesticks on a table stood upright; the cotton was left in both, but the 

 tallow was gone and vanished. Somewhat of moisture was about the feet of the 

 candlesticks. The bed received no damage; the blankets and sheets were only 

 raised on one side, as when a person rises up from it, or goes in ; the whole fur- 

 niture, as well as the bed, was spread over with moist and ash-coloured soot, 

 which had penetrated into the chest-of-drawers, even to foul the linens; nay the 

 soot was also gone into a neighbouring kitchen, and hung on the walls, move- 

 ables, and utensils of it. From the pantry a piece of bread covered with that 

 soot, and grown black, was given to several dogs, which refused to eat it. In 

 the room above it was noticed, that from the lower part of the windows trickled 

 down a greasy, loathsome, yellowish liquor; and thereabout they smelt a stink, 

 without knowing of what, and saw the soot fly around. 



It was remarkable, that the floor of the chamber was so thickly smeared with a 



