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tongue was confum’d, except its inverting membrane, 
which was likewife of a blackifh colour, and waf ng 
away. The integuments and mufcles of the face, 
from the middle of the forehead to the chin, were 
become black, and crumbling into duff The pu- 
denda were quite reduced to their membranes, which 
were alfo become black, and mouldering away. The 
nails were grown about the third part of an inch be- 
yond the fingers and toes, and excepting a little al- 
teration in colour, in every refpect in a natural ftate. 
I fhall now reftrain my pen from being any far- 
ther tedious, and hope what I have communicated 
will be acceptable to you. 
Afhburton, Sept. 1 8. Your moft obedient fervant, 
I 75 I * 
Nicholas Tripe. 
XXXVIII. ExtraB of a Letter from Ero- 
fejfor Euler, cf Berlin, to the Rev. Mr. 
Cafpar Wetflein, Chaplain to Her Royal 
Highnefs the Princefs Dowager of W ales. 
SIR, . 
Read oa. 2 4"^TOU have heard, without doubt, that 
17 5 lm j£ that the Academy at St. Petersburg 
have fixed a prize of one hundred ducats, which they 
will give every year to him, who fhall give the beft 
* anfwer to the queftion, that fhall be propofed ; and 
for the firft time they have propofed this queftion : 
“ Whether 
