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and the hulband then went down, and found Hill 
alive the wife about 45, the lifter about 3 and a 
daughter about 13 years old. Thefe women they 
raifed on their fhoulders to men above, who pulled 
them up, as it were From the grave, and carried them 
to a neighbouring houfe : they were unable to walk, 
and fo wafted that they appeared like mere lhadows. 
They were immediately put to bed, and gruel made 
with rye- flour and a little butter was given to re- 
cover them. Some days after the Intendant came 
to fee them, and found the wife ill unable to rife 
from her bed, or ufe her feet, from the intenfe cold 
Hie had endured, and the bneaftnefs of the pofture 
fhe had been in. The filter, whofe legs had been 
bathed with hot wine, could walk with fome diffi- 
culty ; and the daughter needed no farther remedies, 
for fhe was quite recovered. 
On the Intendant’s interrogating the women, they 
told him, that their appetite was not yet returned 5 
that the little food they eat (excepting broths and 
gruels) lay heavy on their ftomachs, and that the 
moderate ufe of wine had done them great good : 
they aTo gave him the account that follows. 
In the morning of the 19th of March we were in 
the liable, with a boy 6 years old and a girl about 
1 3 : in the fame liable were 6 goats, one of which 
having brought forth 2 dead kids the evening before, 
v/e went to carry her a fmall veftel full of rye -flour 
gruel ; there were alfo an afs and f or 6 fowls. We 
were Iheltering ourfelves in a warm corner of the 
liable till the church bell fhould ring, intending to 
attend the fervice. 
The wife relates, that wanting to go out of the liable 
to kindle a fire in the houfe for her hufband,who was 
jl 2 then 
