( ii?4V) 
jQf rhe Antiejits> hnt m^e me believe that thofe weft -in 
ihefWJL'ong,' who deny*d any perfon to be luffocat^d under 
Water, without they find a quantity in the Lungs or Sto- 
mach 5 it appeared as certain as could be, that this perfon 
went into the Water alive, and yet there w^as no Water 
foiand either in the Trachtea or Subftance of the Lungs. 
The Liquor be had been too freely drinking of an hour or 
two before he dyed (howed itfelf plainly in the Stomach and 
Inteft^nes.* . ; 
Tiib.next Subjeft the Author tells us of, was a Woman 
M^ho unfortunately fell into a Well^ after the Body was 
taken out tbere appeared feverallarge Contufions, there 
w^re two- upon each Arm, about the breadth of two Fin- 
gers, but longer, which lookt as if they had been made 
wkh a Stick ^ the Blood was extravafated-^ between the 0/ 
Br^gmatis 2irA Panmcnlus Carnofus on the Left Side. There 
were two.t iflures on the 0/ FrontU^ and one on each Or- 
bit of the Eye. Under the Pia Mater of the Left Side we 
found fome black Grurnous Blood ^ the Stomach and In- 
teftines were diftended, which upon Incifion funk down 5 
the Lungs were cut into in feveral places, but not the leaft 
cjrop of Water was found in them. No\v if this Woman 
did tumble into the Water alive, its plain fhe dyed for 
#ant of Refpiration 5 but if the Fall occafion'd her Death, 
it proves thofe to be miftaken, who think that Water can 
get into the Parages after Death. 
- A man after 5 days fearch was found ftanding upright in 
the bottom of a Fifli-pond 5 he was carefully taken out and 
viewed, and nOt the leaft mark of- any violence appeared. 
I my felf, with the afliftance of a Surgeon, opened the 
Jhorax and Abdomen 5 the flnteftines were very much di- 
ftended, and contained in them a whitifh Liquor like 
Chyle : The Stomach was fo fwelled as induced the Spefta- 
tors to think it was full of Water 5 we tyed up both the 
Orifices, and took it out, that we might more eafily mea- 
fure the Contents : It was fo very light, that none but 
thofe that handled it could ever have imagined it ; after- 
wards 
