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Centig. (228° Fahr.), that is to say, who supported a heat, 

 9° Centig. (16° Fahr.), higher than if he had been pkmged 

 into a tub of boiling Avater. A young girl mentioned by 

 another saA'ant resisted for ten minutes a heat of 112° 

 Reaumur. I witnessed a still more extraordinary fact. 

 During one of my visits to England, I saw a man walk 

 for several minutes in a long tunnel of fire, which looked 

 like the most formidable flaming furnace one can imagine. ' 

 The case of the tardigrades was similar in the famous 

 experiment. Like the persons we have spoken of, if they 



26. Animals believed to be capable of Kesuscitation. — A Tardigrade; B Rotifera; c Anguillula, 



issued living from their stove at 153° Centig. (306° Fahr.), 

 it was because its heat had never reached them, or it 

 would infallil:ily have burned them. 



Garments skilfully prepared preserve the conjurors from 

 the fatal heat, to which they only exj^ose themselves in 

 appearance; among the tardigrades the earth took the 

 place of the clothes. As the learned Ehrenberg said, 

 with great reason, sand and moss guarantee animalcules 



^ The person mentioned above performed his experiments publicly at London, 

 in Cremorne Gardens. This veritable human phenix walked quietly through a 

 long tunnel of fire, arranged in the form of a cross, and having an openiug at the 

 end of each of its arms. This tunnel, formed of a solid trellis work of iron, 



