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bably occafioned this difappointment, as alfo that they did not 

 hang in their ufual attitude, nor in the proper temperature of air. 

 If they had continued to live, Mr. Cornifh informed me, that 

 though one could perceive no motion in them, yet if placed in 

 contact with a proper crevice, they would however fix themfelves 

 by their claws. 



Thefe bats were kept for fome time by Mr. Hunter before he 

 would abfolutely pronounce them to be dead, and afterwards, at 

 Sir Afhton Lever's, before they were Jet up ; but though they 

 never mewed any ligns of life, yet their bodies did not putrify. 

 The fame thing I had occafion to obferve with regard to fome 

 torpid martins which were fent to me from Somerfetmire, and 

 which I wifhed Mr. Hunter to diffect. Thefe birds alfo did not re- 

 vive, but no figftS likewife of putrefaction appeared, though they 

 were kept a confiderable time. 



And here it may be obferved, that a moderate heat, fuch as thd 

 bofom or hand, is the moft likely to bring torpid animals to life, 

 which are often killed by being placed too near the fire, from the 

 common prejudice, that one cannot have too much of a good thing. 



For a more immediate teft of life in the animal, it will fhrink 

 cither upon the touch, or holding a lighted candle near it. 



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