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appearance fast asleep, stretched out at his ease, and with a large parcel 
serving as a pillow under his head. The shepherd hallooed at the top of 
his voice, and then screamed ; but not a voice answered from below. 
Fear now overcame him again, and with the strength of despair he con- 
tinued his road across the rocks. Sooner than he thought, he arrived at 
the Chalet de la Gelaize, where he made known his discovery. It was 
too late to revisit the cave in the glaciers, but at break of dawn the 
next morning a party of mountaineers, guided by the shepherd, and 
provided with ropes and axes, set out for the spot. The crystal sarco- 
phagus was soon found, and the boldest of the company was let down to 
the icy depths, from which he brought in his arms the body of a young 
man, frozen, and hard as stone, yet still looking fresh and life-like. 
Attached to the corpse by a mass of ice was a parcel containing a new 
piece of linen ; while a watch, in the coat pocket of the dead man, with 
broken glass, but not otherwise damaged, showed the hour of noon. 
Two elderly peasants at once recognized the features as those of the 
pilgrim mysteriously lost nineteen years before. Embalmed in ice, 
decay had not yet touched his flesh, and he had lain undisturbed in his 
crystal coffin while a generation of men had passed away over his head. 
The discoverers of the body held a short consultation among themselves 
■what to do with it, coming to the decision to carry their burthen at 
once over the mountains to Passy. There was no choice of conveyance, 
the only one being the crochet or hook fastened to the shoulders, on 
which all loads are transported in the Alps. To the hook, accordingly, 
the frozen corpse was fastened in a sitting posture, with upright head 
and feet hanging to the ground. Thus the pilgrim, dead nineteen years, 
was carried to his former home, through snoM fields and glaciers, across 
rocks, fields, and meadows, extending over near a score miles. Fastened 
still to the crochet, the body of the young man was left at the cottage of 
the young widow of Passy — now young no more, but an elderly grey- 
haired woman. The son, who had never before seen his father, made 
him a wooden coffin, and, to honour his memory, kept the body lying in 
state for twenty-four hom's. Then, at the ringing of bells, and accom- 
panied by all the inhabitants of the village, the pilgrim was carried to 
his last resting place, never more to be disturbed by mortal hands. — 
Courrier des Alpes. 
Of tlie power of mineral waters to arrest decomposition we 
find, in The Morgenhlatt for January, 1858, the following 
singular instance : — 
Affecting Eecognition. — A few years ago, in working to establish 
a new communication between two shafts of a mine at Falkun, the 
capital of Dalecarlia, the body of a miner was discovered in a perfect 
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