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head foremost, and was violently convulsed^ 

 fliutering with the wings ; the respiration was 

 extreïiiely laborious and soon becanie interrupt- 

 ed, the convulsions coiitiiiued to the fourth miu- 

 ute, when it died. 



EXPERIMENT XXïI. 



A Fowl was wounded in the usual manner 

 with an arrow covered with the Oopas of 

 Tshettik, which had not been mixed with the 

 spices employed in the preparation. 



On the 40th second it feit the operation 

 picking its breast violently, as if it perceived an 

 itehing. 



In one minute it reeled round. 



In one minute and a half it extended its 

 neck, feil down forwardS) fluttered and was 

 seized with convulsions which continued to the 

 3d minute, when it died. 



EXPERIMENT XXIII. 



The following experiment was made in Au- 

 gust 1808> two years after the preparatioo of 

 the poison. 



A Fowl was wounded in the usual manner 

 with a poisoned dart. It died with the above 

 relatcd sjmptonzs two minutes after the puncture 



