DEA TH. 
the de and refting one of his hands on a long urn. 
ure of Mors might have been very common in an- 
frequently oS >Y, the 
The 
and th ing at them, to demand the d t owe 
her: fometimes approaching to their bedfides, and leaning 
over them other mee ee her prey, or ho- 
he 
sarin oa oi ge manifeft great friendfhip to one another 
n the execution of their cruel offices, and Vengeance, in par- 
le after having embraced the goddefs of death, feems, 
according to his account, to take the a net out of her 
EAL of dea 
and civil death : 
the latter, when a ach = aCually dead, ae adjudged 
fo by Jaw. hus, b . Char. II. c. 6., if a perfon 
whofe life an nes is ne remain bead fea, or is 
otherwife abfent feven years, and no proof be made of his 
or becomes a profeffed monk, he fhall be ac- 
dead. However, the latter difability, 
tines the Reformation, is held to be aboli But if t 
party beyond fea be afterwards pai ving at — time of 
eviction of any perfon, then th re-enter 
and recover the profits. By = 
reverfion or remainder, after the 
affidavit that they have caufe to believe fuch other dead, 
may move the chancellor to order the perfon to be pro- 
duced ; not produced, he fha 
— : ‘and siete claiming may enter. Death. 
tH-Watch, in ene Englifh name oar the pedi- 
ood 
> 
ray 
e male or female, when wooing each other 
This ee are the populace have long ea for a pre- 
age of death, in the family w it is heard: whence it 
fag 
is alfo called pediculus arg mortifaga, pulfatorius, &c. 
he d -watches : of the firlt we 
dark brown colour, {potted ; having oo. 
a large cap, or helmet, on the 
' oe taken as_ 
the mouth being protradted by this bony part, and lying une 
derneath, out of view. 
is a cana is pete by Mr. Derham, with this dif, 
ference, that. j of ticking with the upper lip, be ob- 
ferved the inlet vs draw back i its mouth, and beat with its 
That author had two death-w aches, a male and 
imitating its beating ; and by this ticking noife he coul 
frequently invite the a to get up upon the aay in the 
way of coition. \ the male found he got in vain, 
he would get off an beat very eagerl er) t u 
Dy 
the ingenious author concludes thofe pulfa-- 
whereby thofe inle€ts woo one another, 
The ee kind of death-watch is an infect in appear. 
ance quite different from the firft. The former only beats 
feven or eight ftrokes at atime, and quicker: the latter 
will beat fome hours together, without intermiffion ; aa a. 
ftrokes are more leifurely, and like the bea t of a 
This latter is a {mall greyifh infe&, scales wea 
viewed with the naked eye. The ti¢king, as in the other, 
is a wooin 
is is at firft a minute white egg, — {maller 
than the nits of re though the infect is near as big as a 
: March it is hatched, and creeps about with its 
fhell on. When it firft leaves its fhell, it is even fmaller 
than its egg; though that be fcarce difcernible reba a 
microfcope. In this ftate it is fomewhat like the mites 
cheefe : ion this {mall ftate they grow gradually to tel 
mature or perfe& fize: when they become like the o ey 
th t much more {wi ee than bare 
cis, (Syft. Nat. p. 1015, "No. 2.) Geo YCYy ea fays, 
he is confident that it is not this infcét, but from the 
“« dermes domelticus,”” (Syft. Nat. p. 563, No. 12 a eebich 
makes the circular holes in furnia, i 2 — ae 
— (Hift. des Infeétes, t 
p. 602.) Neither of thele is eee ny oe ar 
humanus. aw affures us, that the infe& pro perly 
called the saree is a co oleopterous infect of t ° genus 
p- 565.) He fays it is chiefly in the 
advanced ftate of ce Gag that this alarming little infect 
its diftin® 
ay b 
heard almoft every hour.of the day, efpecially if the baad 
be warm. The found exadly retembles that which may 
makes a 
above defcribed is the eal death-watch, it is well aoe 
that. 
