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the Glafs, obferviog fome faint fignsoflife in him by fome Lan- 
guid morionsj he attempted to make when excited to them , I 
apeiid the Receiver tinder water, to try if that Liquor and Air 
v/ould recover him 5 and the external water rufliing in till it 
had fill'd the vacant part of the Ball and the greateftpart of the 
ftcm tooj the Fifh funk to the bottom of it 5 with a greater ap- 
pearance than ever of being alive, in which ftate after he had 
continued a pretty while, 1 made a fliift, by the help of the wa. 
ter he fwam in, to get him through the Pipe into a Bafon of wa- 
ter, where he gave more manifeft figns of life ; but yet for fome 
hours lay on one fide or other , without being able to (wim or 
ly on his belly, which appear'd very muchflirunk in, as if fome- 
thing during the time of its being feard up had been broken in 
his body, or his Belly had been exceedingly diftended , beyond 
reftitutiontoits former Tone. 
All the while he continued in the Bafon of water, though he 
mov'd his Gills as before he had been feal'd up ^ yet I could not 
perc€ive,that he did, even in his new water, emit, as formerly,any 
Bubbles, though two or three times 1 held him by the Tayl in 
the Air, andputhiminto the Water again 5 where at length he 
grew able to lye conftantly upon his Belly ( which yet retain'd 
much of its former lanknefs 5) and though it be now about or a» 
bove twenty four hours fince he was firft included , he continues 
yet alive* 
(Poftfcript. He liv d in the Bafon eight or ten dayes longer 3 
though divers Gudgeons fince taken dyM there in. much fewer 
dayes.) 
The VriL Title. 
Of two Animals included^ with large wounds in the Abdomen^ 
in the Vneumatical Receiver. 
Experiment the i. 
t^p.xx. A Small ^/W, having the Abdomen opened almoft 
jf\ from flank to flank , without injuring the Guts, 
was put into a Irnall Receiver, and the Pump being (et a work 
continued for fome little time without giving any figns of di- 
ftrefi, but at the end of about a minute and an half from the 
beginning of the exhauftion , (he began to have convulfive mo- 
tions in the wingsj and though the convulfions were not univer- 
falp or did appear violent, as is ufual in other Birds from whom 
