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his Return home at Night to the ‘Devizes, he fell 
from his Horfe 3 or 4 times, and was at laid taken 
up by a Neighbour, and put to Bed in a Houfeupon 
the Road. He foon fell afleep j when, as he tells 
the Story himfelf, dreaming that he was fallen into 
a Furnace of boiling Wort, it put him into fo great 
an Agony of Fright, that, ftruggling with all his 
Might to call out for Help, he actually did call out 
aloud, and recovered the Ufe of his Tongue from 
that Moment as effe&ually as ever he had it in his 
Life, without the leaf! Hoarfencfs remaining, or 
Alteration in the old Sound of his Voice, as near 
as can be difeerned. He was not uled to drink 
hard 5 he is Bill alive, continues in good Health, and 
has the Ufe of his Tongue as perfectly as ever he 
had in the former Part of his Life. 
IV. ExtraEi of a Eetter from Mr. William. 
Arderon, F. R. S. to Mr. Henry Baker, 
E. R. S. concernmg the Hearing of Fifh. 
Read Feb. 1 1 
1747-8. 
SIR, 
S it was at your Defire that I fet 
myfelf to make Experiments and 
Obfcrvations on the Nature and Properties of Fifh, 
and to difeover, if poflible, whether they arc fenfi- 
ble of Noifes, and of the Motions of Bodies, by Hear- 
ing, in the Manner of Land Animals; or whether, 
being deftitutc of that Scnfe, the Want of it is fup- 
plied by the Quickncfs of their Sight and Feelings 
I am going to lay before you the Method I made 
U 2 ufe 
