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we scarcely see that the waters of this region can have 
wlter C » nVeyed t0 tHat C ° Stly bIunder the “Connaught 
In short, we cannot help concluding that the forebodings 
ol our contributor, Frank Fernseed, expressed in Tune, 1882 
have been m great part fulfilled. Very much has been done 
to convert Epping from a Forest to a Park. Formality and 
monotony have been inaugurated in place of freedom and 
variety. For a park— be it a peer’s or a people’s— is some- 
thing essentially formal and monotonous, and we hoped that 
ln E PP in g Forest the public would have had something very 
d ; rferent. We should have felt little satisfaction had we 
known in what manner it was to be “ conserved ” ~ 
\ II. 1 HE NEEDLE ORDEAL IN WITCHCRAFT: 
NON-SENSITIVE POINTS OF THE SKIN. 
tVM. HILS1 it is well known that we perceive with the 
eye merely visual sensations, and with the ear only 
sounds, it is admitted that with what is commonly 
mown as the sense of feeling we perceive an entire series 
ot lespedtively heterogeneous sensations, for with it we 
recognise heat and its opposite cold, pressure, pain, &c. 
lheie can be no occasion to point out that these different 
sensations occasionally overlap each other. Thus temner- 
atuies differing too widely from the average condition of the 
medium in which we live occasion us pain ; but any and 
eveiy temperature, or change of temperature, is not neces- 
saiiiy lecognised as pain or as its opposite. Certain 
degrees or modifications of pressure are felt as pain but 
we cannot pronounce pressure and pain as one and the 
same thing. 
In Physiology the view is commonly received, on the 
ground of observations and experiments on the organs of the 
senses, that each nerve can conduct only one specific kind 
of sensation and convey it to the central organ. Hence 
arose the problem for Physiology, either to show that there 
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