{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
for three hundred years. Since this time
other corpses have been deposited in this
cellar.-Amongst the rest, a plumber, fifty
years of age, who fell from off the steeple,
and severed his head from his body; this
is said to have lain three hundred wears; an
English countess, eighty years of age, be-
longing to the Stanhope family, who died of
cancer, which has been in the vault two
hundred years; Swedish General and his
adjutant, who were killed near Bremen dur
ing the seven years war; a cannon shot


wound in the side of the latter is yet visible;
also a student, who fell in duel about the


same time; the wound of the sabre is yet
preceptible on the lett shoulder, and the
silken band of the garland made by his fair
friends, in to zen of his aifcctionate fate yet


remains There arc also va, ions other bo-
dies preserved here. The whole formerly
lay carelessly on the ground, but OF late
more decency has been observed, each body
having been placed in separate chest. i
examined some of them with great atten-
ton, and found the skin resembling coarse
hard leather, under which, on making pres
sure, might be perceived tive vacancies left
by the drying-r up OF evaporation OF the fluid
hair was frm on the scalp, and
the teeth and nails in a perfect state, the
eyes dried up and deeply sunk in their or
bits, and the nose like double nose, from
the cartilage, at its connection with the oSsu
nasi, having sunk down to a level with the
face. There was Muscovy duck in full
plumage, which retained all its original beau
tv; and also cat, that was supposed to have
got in accidentally, and which lies coiled up
as if asleep"