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not escape, were then placed over him, and I believe a little 

 earth was plastered over the whole, so as to make the surface of 

 the grave smooth and compact. The door of the house was 

 also built up, and people placed outside, so that no tricks might 

 be played nor deception practised. At the expiration of a full 

 month, that is to say this morning, the walling of the door was 

 broken, and the buried man dug out of the grave ; Trevelyan's 

 moonshee only running there in time to see the ripping open of 

 the bag in which the man had been enclosed. He was taken 

 out in a perfectly senseless state, his eyes closed, his hands 

 cramped and powerless, his stomach shrunk very much, and his 

 teeth jammed so fast together, that they were forced to open 

 his mouth with an iron instrument to pour a little water down 

 his throat. He gradually recovered his senses and the use of 

 his limbs ; and when we went to see him was sitting up, supported 

 by two men, and conversed with us in a low, gentle tone of 

 voice, saying that ' we might bury him again for a twelvemonth 

 if we pleased.' " The narrator is Lieut. A. H.Boileau, an officer of 

 engineers, employed on the extensive trigonometrical survey of 

 India. The Indian is now alive, and he voluntarily agreed with 

 Esur-Lal, one of the ministers of the Muharawul of Jaisulmer, to 

 be buried for a month. There may be after all some trick ; 

 but Cornet Macnaghten once suspended him for thirteen days 

 in a close wooden box. Previously to his interments he takes 

 milk only, and of that no more than is sufficient to support life : 

 and during it his hair ceases to grow. 1 



BESIDES sleep, various diurnal revolutions take place in the ani- 

 mal system. We have seen that the pulse is generally thought to 

 be quicker in the evening than in the morning : that the form- 

 ation of carbonic acid in the lungs was found by Dr. Prout 

 in experiments upon himself to increase from daybreak to noon, 

 to decrease from noon to sunset : that muscular power in Dr. 

 Edward's experiments increased during the first half of the day 

 and decreased in the latter. I have noticed for twenty years a 



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