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SINGULAR. PHENOMENON.
On Sunday, the 25th of December, 17£)6, about ten
o’clock in the morning there appeared floating in the at-*
Biosphere minute particles of ice, which in about an hour
became condensed, and fell in sleet, covering the surface
of the ground with ice. The cold was intense that morn-
ing; the thermometer was 16 degrees below the freezing
point. This phenomenon was never before seen but in
very high latitudes.—Observations on the above were
taken near Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham.
D. B. L.
TO THE EDITOR OF KIRBV’s SCIENTIFIC MUSEUM.
Sin,
If you think the following Letter of the great Dr. Franklin to M. Dubourg, on
the Prevailing Doctrines of Life and Death, worth your acceptance to be
inserted in your truly Valuable Museum, it is wholly at your service.
Your’s, &c.—-A Lover of Facts ■'
DEAR SIR,
V OUR obser rations on the causes of death, and th®
experiments which you propose for recalling to life those
who appear to be killed by lightning, demonstrate equally
your sagacity and your humanity. It appears that the
doctrines of life and death, in general, are yet but little
understood.
A toad buried in sand will live, it is said, till the sand
becomes petrified ; and then, being inclosed in the stone*
it may still live for we know not how many years or ages’
The facts which are cited in support of this opinion are
too numerous and too circumstantial not to deserve a
certain degree of credit. As we are accustomed to see
all the animals with which we are acquainted eat and
drink, it appears to us difficult to conceive how a toad
can be supported in such a dungeon; but if we reflect
hat the necessity of nourishment, which animals expe
Vol, IL R rience
SINGULAR. PHENOMENON.
On Sunday, the 25th of December, 17£)6, about ten
o’clock in the morning there appeared floating in the at-*
Biosphere minute particles of ice, which in about an hour
became condensed, and fell in sleet, covering the surface
of the ground with ice. The cold was intense that morn-
ing; the thermometer was 16 degrees below the freezing
point. This phenomenon was never before seen but in
very high latitudes.—Observations on the above were
taken near Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham.
D. B. L.
TO THE EDITOR OF KIRBV’s SCIENTIFIC MUSEUM.
Sin,
If you think the following Letter of the great Dr. Franklin to M. Dubourg, on
the Prevailing Doctrines of Life and Death, worth your acceptance to be
inserted in your truly Valuable Museum, it is wholly at your service.
Your’s, &c.—-A Lover of Facts ■'
DEAR SIR,
V OUR obser rations on the causes of death, and th®
experiments which you propose for recalling to life those
who appear to be killed by lightning, demonstrate equally
your sagacity and your humanity. It appears that the
doctrines of life and death, in general, are yet but little
understood.
A toad buried in sand will live, it is said, till the sand
becomes petrified ; and then, being inclosed in the stone*
it may still live for we know not how many years or ages’
The facts which are cited in support of this opinion are
too numerous and too circumstantial not to deserve a
certain degree of credit. As we are accustomed to see
all the animals with which we are acquainted eat and
drink, it appears to us difficult to conceive how a toad
can be supported in such a dungeon; but if we reflect
hat the necessity of nourishment, which animals expe
Vol, IL R rience