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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.70302#0465
GLEANINGS.
419
long-boat and yawl, got to Ferretor’s Cave, near Limerick
in Ireland, after a very dangerous passage of six days and
sixty leagues.
EXTRAORDINARY SLEEPER.
Early in February 1734, Mary Jenkins, a poor woman
of Warminster, found herself extremely drowsy, without
a possibility of shaking off the lethargy, which increased
upon her the 10th day of the month, when she fell fast
asleep, and continued so until the 1st of March following,
notwithstanding many methods, and some of them very
cruel ones, were used to awaken her. On the 1st of March
she awoke, as from a common sleep, and went about
her business as usual : in a few days she found the lethar-
gic habit growing on her again, and on the 15th of the
same month she fell asleep, and slept until the 17th of
June, at ten o’clock in the morning, when she awoke as
before, ate and drank heartily, and from that time forward
to her death, which happened in 1743, she had her natural
rest as another person.
SHOWER OF DUST.
In a letter from a passenger in a ship belonging to
Mr. David Lock, at Leith, there is an account that in
the night between the 23d of September and the 4th of
October 1755, he being then on his passage from Leith
to South Carolina, between Shetland and Iceland, and
full 25 leagues off the former, which was the nearest land,
the weather being quite calm, and the sky serene, there
fell a large shower of dust on the top-sails and decks of
the ship ; so that in the next morning they were covered
near half an inch thick with it, though no wind was
blowing all the preceding night.
3 h 2
WONDERFUL
419
long-boat and yawl, got to Ferretor’s Cave, near Limerick
in Ireland, after a very dangerous passage of six days and
sixty leagues.
EXTRAORDINARY SLEEPER.
Early in February 1734, Mary Jenkins, a poor woman
of Warminster, found herself extremely drowsy, without
a possibility of shaking off the lethargy, which increased
upon her the 10th day of the month, when she fell fast
asleep, and continued so until the 1st of March following,
notwithstanding many methods, and some of them very
cruel ones, were used to awaken her. On the 1st of March
she awoke, as from a common sleep, and went about
her business as usual : in a few days she found the lethar-
gic habit growing on her again, and on the 15th of the
same month she fell asleep, and slept until the 17th of
June, at ten o’clock in the morning, when she awoke as
before, ate and drank heartily, and from that time forward
to her death, which happened in 1743, she had her natural
rest as another person.
SHOWER OF DUST.
In a letter from a passenger in a ship belonging to
Mr. David Lock, at Leith, there is an account that in
the night between the 23d of September and the 4th of
October 1755, he being then on his passage from Leith
to South Carolina, between Shetland and Iceland, and
full 25 leagues off the former, which was the nearest land,
the weather being quite calm, and the sky serene, there
fell a large shower of dust on the top-sails and decks of
the ship ; so that in the next morning they were covered
near half an inch thick with it, though no wind was
blowing all the preceding night.
3 h 2
WONDERFUL