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wards we opened It, and a great blaft of Wind ruffing out,: 
it funk down again imroediately ^ neither was there any 
more than fix ounces of a vi/ hitifh Liquor in it. The Lungs 
were fo diftended with Wind as to fill up the whole Cavity 
of the Thorax ^ vvc prickt, and cut into them, but not a 
drop of Water canie from the!ii, The M^n ^had the Cha*. 
rader of . a poor boneft faarmlefs Fe!low, ?nd therefore 
could not well' be (ufbefted of beinn,. murder . \ the no- 
fture of his (landing made every one conciude that it was • 
the darknefs of the Night that occafioned his Icfing his ■ 
Way and Life at the fame time. And z% v/e have ali the 
reafon in the Worki to believe that this perfbn was ftifled 
alive under Water, fo we may fte how failaciouD that 
(landing Rule of the Antieots is, who allowed no perfon 
to be drov/ned, without confiderable quantities of Water, 
both in the Lungs, Stomach and Inteftines. 
' After the Author bath given us thefe Experiments, he 
proceeds to anfwer the Objeftion that was made, of per-- 
fons recovering by being fet upon their Heads ^ and after- 
wards to fhow why it happens, that in drowned perfons 
the Water is feldcm found either in the Lungs or Stomach. 
For which we refer you to the Book itfelf, containing be- 
fides twelve uncommon Obfervations oi different Gafes, : 
Printed by Sam. Smith ^nd Bef?j. Wdlfird, Printers to the 
Royal Society, ^ttho Princef Arf^^s in St Pml'^s Church- 
yard, 17060 
ERRATA, 
In fhilofopk Tran/aB. Numb. 302. 
Imt 30, r. inda^afor* 
