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indications of a struggle having happened on the spot are visible upon the ground, or herbage, near the deceased.—Whether any footsteps can be traced near the body, and if so, what is their exact shape and dimensions, and what their direction.—Can the particular spot in which the body was found have been invested with unwholesome vapour, or with air destructive of animal life.—Has there been any violent thunderstorm.—or can the person have been exposed to any extraordinary degree of heat.—Whether any and what weapons are lying near the body.—If so, what is their exact position in relation to the body and its members.—If the body is found in the water, are there any and what reasons for supposing that he was killed by other means, and subsequently thrown into the water.—What are the principal local circumstances of the water in question.—Was the body found floating or otherwise.—What wounds and contusions are visible on its surface.—If the body were drowned, was the death accidental or malicious; was it perpetrated by himself or others. Whether any footsteps are visible on the margin of the water.—Whether any soil or herbage be found in the grasp, or under the nails, of the deceased.—If the deceased be found suspended by the neck, was it by an act of suicide or otherwise.—Was he killed by strangulation or by other means, and subsequently suspended.—What is the nature of the ligature, and the manner in which it is fixed.—Are the hands tied.—If the deceased be found in an apartment, whether it be in a house of ill fame, or in one of suspicious character.—If the deceased be found dead in bed, or chair, or on the floor, what is the nature of the excrementitious matter in the night-vessels.—What bottles, and other articles of medicine are in the apartments?