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154 kirby’s wonderful museum.
before the bottoms of her feet could be covered with new
skin; and, after all, they would have been so tender as not to
bear any pressure: the loss too of all her toes must have
made it impossible for her to move herself but with the as-
sistance of crutches. Mr. Okes ascribes the preservation of
her life to her not having slept or had any evacuations under
the snow, and to her resignation, and the calm state of her
mind. Death put an end to her sufferings, July 13, 1799-
The too free use of spirituous liquors is supposed to have
been the cause both of the extraordinary accident and its
fatal consequences.
ACCOUNT OF THE FALL OF A HUGE MASS OF SNOW
FROM THE ALPS OF PIEDMONT IN ITALY; AND OF
THREE WOMEN OVERWHELMED BY IT IN A STABLE,
FROM THE RUINS OF WHICH THEY WERE EXTRACTED
ALIVE, AFTER A CONFINEMENT OF THIRTY-SEVEN
DAYS.
The following narrative is compiled from the authentic
relations published at Turin, by Dr. Somis, physician to his
Sardinian Majesty, and Dr. Joseph Brune, professor of phi-
losophy at Turin, as given in the Annual Register for 1765,
(Nat. Hist. p. 85.) and in the Philosophical Transactions,
vol. xlix. p. 796.
It has been observed of the Alpine snows, that even on
declivities of more than forty-five degrees to the horizon,
they slide off in a body, as soon as the earth under them has
melted enough of the contiguous layer to acquire a certain
degree of shpperiness; and so tumble headlong over any
precipice they may meet with, to rest where they happen to
fall; or else, by having their direction gradually changed,
drive a considerable distance into the plain, and even over
any little slope that may stand in their way, beating down
before the bottoms of her feet could be covered with new
skin; and, after all, they would have been so tender as not to
bear any pressure: the loss too of all her toes must have
made it impossible for her to move herself but with the as-
sistance of crutches. Mr. Okes ascribes the preservation of
her life to her not having slept or had any evacuations under
the snow, and to her resignation, and the calm state of her
mind. Death put an end to her sufferings, July 13, 1799-
The too free use of spirituous liquors is supposed to have
been the cause both of the extraordinary accident and its
fatal consequences.
ACCOUNT OF THE FALL OF A HUGE MASS OF SNOW
FROM THE ALPS OF PIEDMONT IN ITALY; AND OF
THREE WOMEN OVERWHELMED BY IT IN A STABLE,
FROM THE RUINS OF WHICH THEY WERE EXTRACTED
ALIVE, AFTER A CONFINEMENT OF THIRTY-SEVEN
DAYS.
The following narrative is compiled from the authentic
relations published at Turin, by Dr. Somis, physician to his
Sardinian Majesty, and Dr. Joseph Brune, professor of phi-
losophy at Turin, as given in the Annual Register for 1765,
(Nat. Hist. p. 85.) and in the Philosophical Transactions,
vol. xlix. p. 796.
It has been observed of the Alpine snows, that even on
declivities of more than forty-five degrees to the horizon,
they slide off in a body, as soon as the earth under them has
melted enough of the contiguous layer to acquire a certain
degree of shpperiness; and so tumble headlong over any
precipice they may meet with, to rest where they happen to
fall; or else, by having their direction gradually changed,
drive a considerable distance into the plain, and even over
any little slope that may stand in their way, beating down