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Üſtunce which have not power enough to diſperſe the poiſonous noft in- particles. If high winds were more frequent and durable 18 poſ- there, they would certainly weaken very much, and even retum deſtroy the obnoxious eMuvia of the poiſon; but without ea them the air remains infected and pregnant with theſe | poiſonous vapours,. 0 30| I am the more convinced of this, as the worthy eccle- vnd,| ſiaſtic aſlured me, that a dead calm 15 always attended with aer the greateſt danger, as there is a continual perſpiration miles, iſluing from the tree, which is ſeen to riſe and ſpread in . But the air, like the putrid ſteam of a marſhy cavern. 06| 7 Experiments made with the Gum of:be UpAas- 1 REE« ; and| 10) M In the year 1776, in the month of February, I was deb 1 preſent at the execution of thirteen of the Emperor's con- „the cubines, at Soura-Charta, who were convicted of infidelity 0m- to the Emperor's bed. It was in the forenoon, about paſs eleven 9'clock, when the fair criminals were led into an AU, open ſpace within the walls of the Emperor's palace. part There the judge paſſed ſentence upon them, by which d by they are doomed to ſuffer death by a lancet poiſoned with e the Upas. After this the Alcoran was preſented to them, ee. and they were, according to the law of their great prophet 0, I Mahomet, to acknowledge and to afirm by oath, that part