GILT-TAILED DORMOUSE. 
,pain. A wound, or a burn, makes them con- 
ti'a6t, or shrink, as well as utter a low cry, 
"which they even several times repeat. Hence, 
it is evident, that their internal sensibility still 
exists, as well as the adtion of the heart and 
lungs. It is, however, to be presumed, that 
these vital motions a61: not with so much force 
as when the animal is in it's ordinary state. 
The circulation, it is probable, proceeds in 
the large vessels only ; the respiration is slow 
and feeble; the secretions are inconsiderable; 
and no excrements are voided. There must, 
likewise, be little or no perspiration: since 
they pass several months without eating; 
which could not happen, if they lost as much 
.of their substance by perspiration, as they do 
at other times, when they have an opportunity 
of repairing this natural waste by taking nou- 
rishment. Still, however, they lose some 
part; being found, during long winters, to die 
in their holes: but, perhaps, it is not so much 
the duration, as the rigour, of the cold, which 
destroys them ; for, when exposed to a strong 
frost, they soon die. I am induced to think> 
that they do not perish through loss of sub- 
stance; because, in autumn, they aic exceed- 
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