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the poor-houfe, a fmall cottage adjoining the church¬ 
yard. In this fituation he continued to lie without exhi¬ 
biting the lead evidence of an improving condition. 
When any of his limbs were railed, they fell with the lea¬ 
den weight of total inanimation; his eyes were doled, 
and his countenance evinced the palenefs of death, though 
diverted of any of the concomitant fymptorns of approach¬ 
ing diffolution. His refpiration continued free, and his 
puife maintained its character of a healthful tone. The 
iuftenance he received was entirely that of eggs diluted 
with wine, and occafionally with tea, which he fucked in 
through his teeth ; all attempts, forcible as fome of them 
were, to compel him to open his mouth, having been re¬ 
peatedly tried in vain ; and various experiments were 
again made to excite fenfation without effect, particularly 
that of thru fling pins under his finger-nails. In this 
hopelefs condition he was vifited by Mr. Welfh, furgeon, 
of Taunton; wdio fuggefted the propriety of performing 
the operation of fealping the patient, with a view to afeer- 
tain whether the fall, to which the illnefs was attributed, 
might not have produced a depreflion of the brain. The 
propoial was communicated to the parents of Adams, 
who expreffed their willingnefs that the experiment fhould 
be made. Accordingly, at the time appointed, the fur¬ 
geon accompanied Adams’s father to the bed-fide of his 
Ion, and there, in the prefence of feveral refpeftable per- 
fons, deferibed to both the young man’s parents the na¬ 
ture and precife courfe of the operation about to be per¬ 
formed. Old Adams then fliaved his fon’s head. The 
incifions were made—the fcalp drawn up—and the head 
examined—during all which time the young man mani- 
fefted no audible fymptom of pain, or l'enfibility of fuffer¬ 
ing whatever, until the application of an inftrument, with 
which the bone was feraped in a particular part, and then, 
and once only, he uttered a groan. No beneficial refult 
appearing from this experiment, and as his cafe feemed 
abfblutely remedilefs, application was made to his regi¬ 
ment for his difcharge. On Tuefday the 20th of Auguft 
the difcharge arrived. On the Tuefday following (the 27(h), 
old Adams brought his fon down flairs in his arms; and 
on the 28th, he again brought him down, the fon ftill re¬ 
maining infenfible. On the next night {the 29th), he 
was feen fitting in the poor-houfe, with a gun in his hand, 
converting with his father; and on Friday, the 30th, he 
■was at a fanner’s at Thurlbear, two miles from Bicken- 
hall, cutting fpars, carrying reed up a ladder, and affift- 
ing his father in thatching a rick! ! On the next day 
(the 31ft), he was in the barton of Mr. Cozens, of Bick- 
enhall, with a pick in his hand, killing mice; and on 
Sunday the iftof September, Mr. Cozens himfelf met him 
in a neighbouring copfe gathering nuts! ! On the morn¬ 
ing of Friday, the 30th of September, young Adams walk¬ 
ed into the cottage of Martha Cozens, who lives next 
door to the poor-houfe. She expreffed great furprife at 
the fuddennefs of his recovery ; and alked him, how he 
was able to undergo fo much fuffering ? To which he an- 
fwered, that he had no recollection of having experienced 
any. She then afked him, if he did not recoiled feeling 
any pain when the furgeon was feraping his head ? To 
which he replied, “that he perfectly recolleCted that.” 
The extraordinary rapidity of this young man’s recovery, 
after obtaining his difcharge from his regiment, having ex¬ 
cited, m combination with the other circumftances which 
we formerly ftated, an opinion that impofition had been 
praCtifed, fome of the neighbours reported that a prefs- 
gang was coming for him. This, it is l'uppofed, having 
reached his ears, he abconded, and not a fyllable has been 
heard of him fince. Both Adams and his fon had long 
been confidered as bad characters in the parifh where they 
refide. The old man was himfelf formerly in the military 
fervice, and effected his difcharge by counterfeiting illnefs, 
though not of that defeription which has been affumed by 
his fon.. The opinion is very general that he has affifted 
Iris fon in his artifice, and that food was fecretly convey¬ 
ed to him. It is, however, but right to ftate that the fa¬ 
ther was denied all accei's to him for feveral days while he 
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was in gaol. When the degree of fuffering, fo which this 
young man has fubmitted in various forms, and the term 
of mifery to which he has devoted himfelf (a period of be¬ 
tween four and five months), are confidered, it is hardly 
poflible not to pronounce the prefent cafe as one which, 
for unfubdued refolution, craftinefs of plan, and perfeve- 
rance of exertion, is beyond all parallel in the records of 
fyftematic juggling. The inceffant vigilance neceffary to 
elude detection—the Spartan fortitude in lupprelfing the 
evidences of pain—the youth of the delinquent—the fkil- 
ful arrangements connected with this exploit—when all 
thefe are taken into confideration, we are inclined to fub- 
feribe to the philofophy of thofe who affert the omnipo¬ 
tence of mind over the baler materials of our nature, and 
ceafe to wonder at the tortured Indian, who, in the inge- 
nioufly-protraCted agonies of death, derides the favage tri¬ 
umph of his enemies. The above narrative is from the 
Taunton Courier of July and September; and we have no 
reafon to doubt the correchiefs of the particulars. Thus 1 
we have brought the hiftory of juggling down to the pre¬ 
fent hour. 
JUG'GLINGLY, adv. In a deceptive manner. 
JUG'GOT GRO'W, a title given by the Hindoos to 
Akbar : it fignifies, “guardian of mankind.” 
JUG'HINOL, a town of Bengal: feven miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Moorley. 
JUGHIGO'PA, a town of Bengal: twenty-feven miles 
ealt of Rangamatty. 
JUGK, a town of Prufiia, in the province of Natangens 
ten miles north-weft of Lick. 
JUGLAN'DI AFFFNIS, /. in botany. See Hippo- 
mane. 
JU'GLANS,/ [ Jovisglans , Lat. acorn or mart of Jove.] 
The Walnut-tree ; in botany, a genus of the clafs 
monoecia, order polyandria, natural order of amentace®, 
(terebintaceae, JuJf.) The generic characters are—I. Male 
Howers. Calyx: ament cylindrical, imbricate-fcattered 
all round, with one-flowered feales, turned outwards. Pe- 
rianthium: elliptic, fiat, fix-parted ; fegments upright- 
concave, blunt. Corolla: none. Stamina: filaments 
many, very Ihort; anther® oval. II. Female flowers 
heaped. Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, bell-fhaped, 
four-cleft, upright, very ihort, one-flowered. Corolla: 
one-petalled, four-cleft, upright, acute, a little larger than 
the calyx. Piltillum : germ oval, large, inferior; ftyles 
very ihort; ltigmas two, large, reflex, jagged at top. Pe- 
ricarpium: drupe dry, oval, large, one-celled. Seed; 
nut very large, roundiih, netted-grooved, half-four-celled ; 
nucleus four-lobed, variously grooved. —EJfentiaL Charader, 
Male. Calyx one-leafed, icale-form ; corolla lix-parted ; 
filaments eighteen. Female. Calyx four-cleft, fuperior; 
corolla four-parted; ftyles two; drupe with a grooved 
nucleus. 
Species. 1. Juglans regia, or common walnut-tree: 
leaflets about nine, oval or oblong, fmooth, fubferrate, al- 
molt equal, the odd one petioled. The walnut is a very 
large and lofty tree, with ftrong fpreading boughs. Leaves 
pinnate, with a very ltrong but not unpleaiant fmell. 
Leaflets three pairs (fometimes two or four), nearly equal, 
except that the odd one is -larger ; they are entire, fmooth, 
and ihining. Male flowers in clofe pendulous iuhtermi- 
nating aments ; females fcattered, frequently two or three 
together. Fruit an ovate, coriaceous, fmooth, drupe, in- 
clofirig an irregularly-grooved nut, which contains a four- 
lobed, oily, eatable kernel, with an irregular knobbed 
furface, and covered with a yellow ikin. 
There are feveral varieties of the common walnut; 
but they all vary again when railed from the feed, and 
nuts from the fame tree will produce different fruit: per- 
fons therefore, who plant the walnut for its fruit, ihould 
make choice of the trees in the nurferies, when they have 
their fruit upon them. 
The flowers begin to open about the middle of April, 
and are in full blow by the middle of May, before which 
time the leaves are fully difplayed. Even in the fouth of 
France it is frequently injured by fp ring-fro Its; to avoid 
6 M this, 
