An account of the providential preservation of Eliz. Woodcock : who survived a confinement under the snow, of nearly eight days and nights, in the month of February 1799 ... / by Thomas Verney Okes.

  • Okes, Thomas Verney.
Date:
[1799?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the providential preservation of Eliz. Woodcock : who survived a confinement under the snow, of nearly eight days and nights, in the month of February 1799 ... / by Thomas Verney Okes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / , the acknowledgement of the gypfies themfelves. She recollects having pulled out her fnuff-box and taken two pinches of fnuff; but, what is very ffrange, (he felt fo little gratification from it, that fhe never repeated it. A common obferver would have imagined the irritation arifing from the fnuff would have been peculiarly grateful to her, and that being deprived of all other comforts, fhe would have folaced herfelf with thofe which the box afforded, ’till the contents of it were exhaufted. Poffibly however the cold fhe en¬ dured might have fo far blunted her powers of fenfation, that the fnuff no longer retained its ffimulus. At another time finding her left hand beginning to fwell in confequence of her reclining for a confiderable time on that arm, fhe took two rings, the tokens of her nuptial vows twice pledged, from her finger, and put them, together with a little money which fhe had in her pocket, into a fmall box ; fenfibly judging, that fhould fhe not be found alive, the rings and money, being thus depofited, were lefs likely to be overlooked by the difcoverers of her breathlefs corpfe. She frequently fhouted out, in hopes that her voci¬ ferations reaching the ears of any that chanced to pafs that way, they might be drawn to the