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HUMAN BODIES.
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years past, during which time there is not the least per-
ceptible alteration in it. In another coffer is the body of
a workman, who is said to have tumbled off the church,
and was killed by the fall. His features evince this most
forcibly. Extreme agony is marked in them; his mouth
is wide open, and his eye-lids the same; the eyes are
dried up. Elis breast is unnaturally distended, and his
whole frame betrays a violent death.—A little child, who
died of the small pox, is still more remarkable. The
marks of the pustules, which have broken the skin on his
hands and head, are very discernible; and one should
suppose, that a body, which died of such a distemper,
must contain, in a high degree, the seeds of putrefaction.
—The other corpse are likewise very extraordinary.
There are, in this vault, likewise turkeys, hawks, wea-
sels, and other animals, which have been hung up here,
from time immemorial, some very lately, and are all
in the most complete preservation, and unaltered in their
parts. The cause of this phenomenon is doubtless
the dryness of the place where they are laid. It is in
vain to seek for any other. The magistrates do not per-
mit any fresh bodies to be brought here, and there is no
other subterranean chamber which has the same pro-
perty. It would have made an excellent miracle two or
three centuries ago in proper hands ; but now mankind
are grown too wise.
Remarkable case of a Haman Body found in a Bear Skin,
August, 10, 1764.
A dead body was landed at Cadiz, inclosed in along
skin nearly resembling that of a bear ; it was found,
with several others of the same kind, in some caverns in
the Canary Islands, were they ar’e supposed to have been
buried before the conquest of those islands by John de
Bretancourt,
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years past, during which time there is not the least per-
ceptible alteration in it. In another coffer is the body of
a workman, who is said to have tumbled off the church,
and was killed by the fall. His features evince this most
forcibly. Extreme agony is marked in them; his mouth
is wide open, and his eye-lids the same; the eyes are
dried up. Elis breast is unnaturally distended, and his
whole frame betrays a violent death.—A little child, who
died of the small pox, is still more remarkable. The
marks of the pustules, which have broken the skin on his
hands and head, are very discernible; and one should
suppose, that a body, which died of such a distemper,
must contain, in a high degree, the seeds of putrefaction.
—The other corpse are likewise very extraordinary.
There are, in this vault, likewise turkeys, hawks, wea-
sels, and other animals, which have been hung up here,
from time immemorial, some very lately, and are all
in the most complete preservation, and unaltered in their
parts. The cause of this phenomenon is doubtless
the dryness of the place where they are laid. It is in
vain to seek for any other. The magistrates do not per-
mit any fresh bodies to be brought here, and there is no
other subterranean chamber which has the same pro-
perty. It would have made an excellent miracle two or
three centuries ago in proper hands ; but now mankind
are grown too wise.
Remarkable case of a Haman Body found in a Bear Skin,
August, 10, 1764.
A dead body was landed at Cadiz, inclosed in along
skin nearly resembling that of a bear ; it was found,
with several others of the same kind, in some caverns in
the Canary Islands, were they ar’e supposed to have been
buried before the conquest of those islands by John de
Bretancourt,