to the part and ft agnate there ( which id bruifes is the caufe of 
blacknefs ) and it was but as if fuch a blow had been given on 
a Body newly dead;which does not nfe to caufe fuch a fymptora 
of a bruife, after the blond ceafes to circulate. 
Having done with the Head, they open’d the Bxeafl^ and 
found that burning to reach quite through the skin, which was 
in thofe fcorch’d places hard and horney, and fhrunk up, fo as it 
was not fo thick as the foft skin about it : but no appearance of 
any thing deeper than the skin the Mufcles not at all diforder’d 
or difcolour’d (perhaps, upon the reafon, that was but now faid 
of the Head, Neck and Shoulder. ) Having then taken off the 
Sternum , the Lungs and Heart appear’d all wel!,and well-colour- 
ed without any diforder. 
This is the fum of what was obferved ; onely that the whole 
Body was, by night, very much fwell'd, more than in the morn- 
ing ; and fmelt very ftrong and ofFenfively r Which might be by 
the hotnefs of the weather, and by the heat of the place occafi- 
oil’d by the multitude of people. 
An Experiment 
To examine , what Figu re, and Celerity pf Motion begetteth 2 
or encreafetb Light and Flame* 
This was communicated by Dr. Beale, as follows ; 
May 5 . 1 66 y. frefh Mackrels wereboyl’d in Water, with fait 
andfweet herbs; and, when the Water was perfectly cold, the 
sext morning, the Mackrels were left in the Water for pickle. 
May 6. more frefh Mackrels were boyl'd in like water i 
and May 7. both water and Mackrels were put into the former 
water, together with the former Mackrels. ( Which circ urn fian- 
ces Ido particularize, becaufe, whether, the mixture of the pickle 
offeveral ages, and a certain fpaceoftime, or whatever elfe was 
necefFary, and wanting, the tryal did not fkcceed with like ef- 
fect at other timesD 
But now on the next Monday (May 8. ) evening, the Cook 
ftirring the water, to takeout fome of the Mackrels, found the 
water at the firft motion become very luminous, and the Fifh 
fliining through the water,as adding much to the Light, which 
ihe water yielded.The water by the mixture of Salt and Herbs,, 
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