was kill'd with violent Convul&longs;ions, <lb/>
within five Minutes from the beginning <lb/>
of the Pumping. </s></p>

<p type="margin"> <s><margin.target id="marg55"/><emph type="italics"/>Experi<lb/>
ment<emph.end type="italics"/> 41.</s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>A while after we put in a Mou&longs;e, new<lb/>
ly taken, in &longs;uch a Trap as had rather af<lb/>
frighted then hurt him; vvhil'&longs;t he vvas <lb/>
leaping up very high in the Receiver, vve <lb/>
fa&longs;ten'd the Cover to it, expecting that <lb/>
an Animal u&longs;ed to live in narrow holes <lb/>
vvith very little fre&longs;h Air, vvould endure <lb/>
the vvant of it better then the lately men<lb/>
tion'd Birds: But though, for a vvhile af<lb/>
ter the Pump vvas &longs;et avvork, he conti<lb/>
nued leaping up as before; yet 'tvvas not <lb/>
long ere he began to appear &longs;ick and gid<lb/>
dy, and to &longs;tagger, after vvhich he fell <lb/>
dovvn as dead, but vvithout &longs;uch violent <lb/>
Convul&longs;ions as the Birds died vvith. <lb/>
</s> <s>Whereupon, ha&longs;tily turning the Key, we <lb/>
let in &longs;ome fre&longs;h Air upon him, by vvhich <lb/>
he recovered, after a vvhile, his &longs;en&longs;es and <lb/>
his feet, but &longs;eem'd to continue vveak and <lb/>
&longs;ick: But at length, grovving able to <lb/>
skip as formerly, the Pump vvas plyed <lb/>
again for eight minutes, about the mid<lb/>
dle of vvhich &longs;pace, if not before, a very <lb/>
little Air by a mi&longs;chance got in at the <lb/>
Stop-cock; and about tvvo minutes after <lb/>
that, the Mou&longs;e divers times leap'd up