 | Science - 1832 - 446 pages
...afterwards : he continued to breathe for 7 minutes. We now tried a fowl, which died in 1£ minute. We threw in another, which died before touching the...experiments we experienced a heavy shower of rain ; but we were so interested by the awful scene before us, that we did not care for getting wet. On the opposite... | |
 | Geology - 1832 - 438 pages
...limbs afterwards : he continued to breathe for 7 minutes. We now tried a fowl, which died in 1^ minute. We threw in another, which died before touching the...experiments we experienced a heavy shower of rain ; but we were so interested by the awful scene before us, that we did not care for getting wet. On the opposite... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pages
...continued, to breathe for seven minutes. We now tried a fowl, who died in a minute an. I a half. We then threw in another, which died before touching the ground....experiments we experienced a heavy shower of rain ; but we were so interested by the-awful scene bfefore us, that we did not care for getting wet. On the opposite... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - 1834 - 590 pages
...limbs afterwards ; he continued to breathe for seven minutes. We now tried a fowl, which died in one minute and a half. We threw in another, which died...experiments we experienced a heavy shower of rain, but we were so interested by the awful scene before us, that we did not care for getting wet. On the opposite... | |
 | Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 1050 pages
...limbs afterwards ; he continued to breathe for seven minutes. We now tried a fowl, which died in one minute and a half. We threw in another, which died...experiments we experienced a heavy shower of rain, but we were so interested by the awful scene before us that we did not care for getting wet. " On the opposite... | |
 | Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 692 pages
...afterwards ; he continued to breathe for seven minutes. We now tried a fowl, which died in one minute and n half. We threw in another, which died before touching...experiments we experienced a heavy shower of rain, but we were so interested by the awful scene before us that we did not care for getting wet. • • On... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1837 - 630 pages
...then stood quite still, and in ten seconds fell on his face, and never moved his limbs afterwards, but continued to breathe for seven minutes. We then tried...experiments we experienced a heavy shower of rain, but we were so interested by the awful scene before us, that we did not care for getting wet. On the opposite... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1837 - 554 pages
...then stood quite still, and in ten seconds fell on his face, and never moved his limbs afterwards, but continued to breathe for seven minutes. We then tried...experiments we experienced a heavy shower of rain, but we were so interested by the awful scene before us, that we did not care for getting wet. On the opposite... | |
 | Literature - 1864 - 640 pages
...fell on his face, and never afterwards moved hia limbs ; he continued to breathe seven minutes. We now tried a fowl, which died in a minute and a half. We...experiments we experienced a heavy shower of rain ; but we were so interested by the awful sight before us that we did not care for getting wet. On the opposite... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - Meteorology - 1849 - 516 pages
...fell on his face, and never afterwards moved his limbs ; he continued to breathe 7 minutes. We now tried a fowl, which died in a minute and a half. We...experiments, we experienced a heavy shower of rain ; but we were so interested by the awful sight before us, that we did not care for getting wet. On the opposite... | |
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During these experiments we experienced a heavy shower of rain; but we were so interested by the awful sight before us that we did not care for getting wet. On the opposite side, near a large stone, was the skeleton of a human being, who must have perished... 
