( tin ) 
or Inten^;»^"^ ^^nd lookt exadly as thofe do in Dogs thaf 
are hang /e made an Incifion into the Trach£a, where- 
upon tht} xak down immediately. This at firit made a 
great noile, the Phyficians were amaz'd at it, and, in (hort, 
every one much wondred how a Dog could be drowned 
without Water. This our Author tells us was the firft 
occafionofhis diflen ting from the Antients in Cafes of 
Drowning. 
The next Obfervation he gives us, is of a Countryman • 
who leaving been miffing for fome weeks, was afterwards 
found drowned in a very Qiallow place. The Body bein^ 
clean d from Mud^ fome Livid Spots appeared externally, 
tho we could not perceive any violence had been ufed : 
Then we proceeded to open the Abdomen and Thorax 5 in 
the Abdomen the Inteftines appeared to be fall, atter we 
had tyed up the GuU and Dnodemmy that we might more 
eafily judge of the Contents of the Stomach, we took ic 
out, and by the weight ot it judged there muft needs be a 
very confiderable quantity of Water in it 5 neither were we 
miftaken in the quantity, but upon cutting into it, it ap- 
peared to be the Liquor he had been too freely drinking of ^ 
we thought there might be much about the fame quantity 
in the Lungs, by reafon of their great ex'enfion ^ but it 
happened we were out in our gueffing, for no looner did 
we. cut into the Tr^^-/?»^^, but the Wind rufhed out, and 
the Lungs funk down that very moment. Now had I per- 
ceived that any violence had been ufed, I (hould certainly 
have concluded that the Perfon had been killed, and after 
he was dead was thrown into the River , but we under* 
flood by fome prefent with us, who told us, that they faw 
the Deceafed at a Fair very much in drink (which was the 
laft time that ever he was feen alive ) and fancied, that in 
paffing over that River ( w^hich he could not avoid ) in 
his way iiome, he unfortunately felling and indeed the 
contents of his Stomach proved what they faid to be true. 
This Obfervation did not only throw down the Hjpthejls 
