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Vas James Bill^ no remains of life were feen ; his hat was toru 

 Very much, and was lying feveral feet from him. There vs^as 

 a breach in the ikin of his head, from which the blood ran 

 down his face. From the breach in his head there was a 

 dufky appearance like that which is made by the burning of 

 gun powder, down his neck and breaft, and {q (chiefly on the 

 left fide) to his i^tt, 



G)I, Revere, who in the difcharge of his duty as^coroner, ex- 

 amined the body, tells me, he obferved the breach in the fkin of 

 the head, and alfo a white mark, like difcratcby down the neck ; 



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which he thought, was over the jugular vein ; 



and on each 



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fide the white appearance, there were dufky ftreaks as defcrib- 



ed before. 



The man who was killed, had on a pair of ftrong canvafs 



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trowfcrs, both legs of which were torn open ; the left in two 

 oj three places. 



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- As the members of the academy ' wifh to have every circwm- 



: communicated, which carries evidence to fhov; the 



fiance 



direaion of the charge, I will fubmit the following reafons to 



fhoWj that in this cafe, the earth vf^sj)c/itive, and the diredion 



of the charge was upwards. 



Tlic morning of the day, and all the forenoon, was extremely 

 hot, with the wind, very fmall, mofl of the time,' from the 



After a ihort calm, about 1 2 o'clock, there was a Ught 



weft. 



breeze from the eaft and fouth eaft 

 clouds began to appear. ' 



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According 



