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with this flilaing faculty, it was found, that a Legg of ^eaf^ 
which was caufcd to be brought into my Chamber, had 
fome ftiiniog places in it 1 thdugh they were but very few 
and faint in coiaparifon of thofe, that were confpicuous in 
the above-mentioned Neck. 
18. Whatfurther Pb(enomena this raorniDg might have 
afforded me, I cannot tell, having been haftily called up 
before day for a Niece, that I am very juftly and exceed- 
ingly concerned for^who was thought to be upon the point 
of death* and whofe almoft gafpiog condition had too 
much affefted and imployed me^ to leav^ me any time for 
Philofophical entertainments, that require a calm, if not a 
pleafed, mind* Only this I took notice of, becaufe the 
obfervation could not coft me a minute of an hour , that 
whilft they were bringing me Candles for to rife by, I look- 
ed upon a clean phial, that I had laid upon the bed by me 
after a piece of our luminous Veal had been included in it, 
and found it to £hine vividly at that time, which was be- 
tween four and five of clock this morning, fince when I 
have made no one obfervation or tryal* 
P OSTS C J^IPT. 
19. Near two days after I had made the forementioned 
Obfervations,thofe horrid fymptoms of myNiece's difeafe, 
that had fo much allarmed the Phyfitians and me, being 
through Gods goodnefsconfiderably abated, I began to 
rcfume the thoughts of our Shining Veal, and though , ha- 
ving in the hurry I was in forgotten to take any order a-* 
bout it, I found it was already difpofed of j yet the piece, 
I lately mentioned to have been included in a phial, being 
preferved in it, I looked upon it the third day (inclufively) 
after we had firft obferved the meat, *t was cut off from, to 
be luminous > and I found it to Ihine in the dark as vigo* 
roufly as ever. The fourth day its light was alfo confpicu- 
ousjfo that I was ^hlein a dark Corner of the room to flievv 
