This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 Excerpt: ...laboured under dimness of sight, occasioned by her being too hastily exposed to the light. The others soon returned to their usual labours, and continued to lead the same life as they did before their misfortune.--""--Remarkable Preservation of Lieutenant George Spearing. The following narrative of the circumstances ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 Excerpt: ...laboured under dimness of sight, occasioned by her being too hastily exposed to the light. The others soon returned to their usual labours, and continued to lead the same life as they did before their misfortune.--""--Remarkable Preservation of Lieutenant George Spearing. The following narrative of the circumstances attending the misfortune of Lieutenant Spear-ing are from his own pen. They are given in a letter to a friend, written by him at Green-wich Hospital, and datedAugust, 1, 1793; and though twenty-four years had then elapsed from the accident which he decribes, it will not excite any wonder that he should still retain so distinct a recollection of what he might justly consider as the most remark-able event in his life. "You have so often importuned me to commit to writing the story of my misfortune and providential preservation, that I have now determined to comply with your solicitations. From the long lapse of time since it happened, it will not appear surprising if some circum stances should escape my memory; but you may depend upon it that I will relate no more than the truth, so far as recollection can justify the assertion. "On Wednesday, September 13, 1769, between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, I went into a little wood called Northwoodside, situated between two and three miles north-west of Glasgow, with a design to gather a few hazel-nuts. I think that I could not have been in the wood more than a quarter of an hour, nor have gathered more than ten nuts, before I unfortunately fell into an old coal-pit, exactly seventeen yards deep, which had been made thjough solid rock. I was some little time insensible. On recovering my recollection, I found myself sit'ing nearly as a tailor does at his work, the blood flo...
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