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Ancient Body found in a Bog in Ireland. 



The body of a man, in a bog ten and a half feet deep, was 

 found about nine feet below the surface. The abdomen was 

 collapsed, but it, in all other respects, bore the appearance 

 of recent death. The face was that of a youth of fine fea- 

 tures, with hair long and black, loosely hanging over the 

 shoulders. The dress, which was tight, and reached to the 

 elbows and knees, was composed of the skin of an animal, 

 probably the moose deer, laced with thongs, and having the 

 hair inwards. There were no weapons, but a long staff or 

 pole was laid on each side the body. Varro derives the Sa- 

 gum of the Romans from the Sac, or skin dress of the Gauls 

 and Britons, which probably was tight, and not flowing, from' 

 the nature of the material. The Suevi, according to Tacitus, 

 wore flowing hair, and the staffs were familiar to the Silures, 

 according to the same author. From the depth at which it 

 was found, an immense period of time must have passed to 

 admit of nine feet of vegetable matter having grown over 

 the body, and all the circumstances concur to make it pro- 

 bable that the body was of a very remote period ; for be- 

 fore the arrival of the English, the Irish wore, for the most 

 part, ill made garments, made from their black sheep. — Abstract 

 of a paper in Edin. JY. Phil. Jour. June, 1831. 



On the Phenomenon of Blushing. 



M. E. A. Lauth observes, that he is not aware that any 

 precise information has been afforded as to the kind of vessels 

 which produce the color of the face. Most physiologists 

 merely say that it depends upon the capillaries. M. Lauth 

 states, that if the arteries are successfully injected, the whole 

 of the face becomes of an uniform red tint. It cannot, there- 

 fore, be these vessels which produce the phenomenon of 

 blushing. He has derived the following results from a per- 

 fect injection of'the facial veins : the cheeks were deeply 

 colored, the chin, the tip of the nose and the forehead obtain- 

 ed a slighter tint, and the other parts of the face were still 

 less colored. This kind of coloration resembles that which is 

 produced by mental emotions during life, and we may there- 

 fore conclude that blushing depends in part upon venal con- 

 gestion. — Mem. de la Societe, <^c. de Strasbourg. 



