209 
remarkable Effects of a Shipwreck. 
1 minute after, heat 90° 
2 minutes - 92 
3 “ 92 . 
4 - 9 * i 
5 - 9 2 
6 -9 2| 
7 - 94 
8, 9, 10, 11 - 94 
12 minutes 
13 " 
14 “ 9 4°i 
15 to 24, - - 94 t 
25 94 
2 6, 27 
28 94 t 
2 9> 3° " 94 
It will be observed, that in the above table there are blanks 
left in the report. At such times the thermometer was taken 
out of Edwards’s mouth, to admit of his answering the ques- 
tions put to him. He said, that on plunging into the water 
he felt an extreme cold, which he could not but think was 
partly owing to his being exposed, naked, to the wind before ; 
that this cold diminished, and in a little while he felt comfort- 
able, but that after a while the sense of coldness returned, 
though less than at first ; diminishing again, but in a less 
degree. At length his sensations became pretty fixed. In 
this state, when the water was at rest, be should not even have 
known, by his feelings from the upper part of his chest to the 
pubes, that he was in water at all. His feet and legs were 
very cold ; so were his hands and arms ; and so also the penis 
and scrotum. He mentioned, likewise, that he felt a cold 
circle round the upper part of his body, though not constantly. 
On examining into this, I found it was greatest at first, and 
that it extended over the space which, from the undulations 
left in the bath by the plunge of immersion, was alternately 
above and under the surface of the water : when the bath 
settled, it was little felt ; but by agitating the fluid, I could re- 
produce it, at any time when the cold in the extremities was 
not so great as to prevent its being felt. This curious parti- 
