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ran to his afliftance, but found him quite dead. His face, he 
faid, was of a livid colour, his cloaths were torn to pieces, and 
he had a ftrong fmell of burning. He immediately emptied 
his own cart, and carried home Lauder’s body to his friends ; 
fo that I had not an opportunity of examining it : but Mr. 
Bell, Minifter of Coldftream, a gentleman of the mod per- 
fect candour and veracity, told me, that he had been fent for, 
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to announce the fatal event to the young man’s parents, and 
had examined the body ; that he found the fkin of the right 
thigh much burnt and hh ri veiled, and many marks of the 
lame kind over the whole body ; but none on the legs, 
which he imputed to their hanging over the fore-part of the 
cart at the time of the explolion, and not being in contact 
with any part of it. His cloaths, and particularly his fhirt, 
was very much torn, and emitted a ftrong lmell of burning. 
The body was buried two days after, without having difco- 
vered any fymptoms of put refaction. 
Lauder’s companion lhewed me the diftance between the 
two carts, which was exactly marked; tor his horfes had 
turned round at the time of the explolion, and broke their 
harnefs : I found it about twenty-four yards, and Lauder*?. 
cart was a few feet higher on the bank, but had not yet 
reached the fummit. He told me, he was likewife fitting on 
the fore-part of his cart, and had Lauder, his cart and horfes, 
full in view, when they fell to the ground ; that he perceived 
no flafh, nor appearance of fire, and was fenfible of no fhock, 
nor uncommon fenfation. 
I now examined the cart, and the fpot around it, as exactly 
as I could. The horfes were black, and of a ftrong make; 
they had fallen on the left fide, and their legs had made a 
deep impreffion in the duft, which, on our lilting them up, 
lhewed 
