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 * An Account of the Scarabæus Galeatus Pulator, or the Death Watch, by Mr. Hugh Stackhoue. Communicated by John Harwood, L.L.D. R.S.S.
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 * An Account of the Scarabæus Galeatus Pulator, or the Death Watch, by Mr. Hugh Stackhoue. Communicated by John Harwood, L.L.D. R.S.S.
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S I tood thoughtful in my Study, on the 16th of May, 1724 I happen'd to hear, what is commonly call'd the Death Watch, very near, as I thought, to the Place where I then tood: This brought into my Mind, what I had formerly read in the Philoophical Tranactions, for the Month of October, 1698, of the Scarabæus Galeatus Pulator, found, and describ'd, by Mr. Benjamin Allen. While I was thinking upon the Account there given, I fancied I heard the Beatings omewhat tronger than before, which encourag'd me to earch after it; I thereupon removed my Station to another Part of the Room, and oon dicover'd, that I had pas'd the Place where the Beatings were; upon which, I concluded, that it lay omewhere betwixt my two Stations; I therefore remov'd, and placed myelf about the middle Ditance; where, though the Beatings did not repeat o frequently as before, yet when they did, I found I was till nearer 'em. While I tood in this Place, I fancied 'twas over my Head, toward the Ceiling of the Room; upon this, I got upon a Chair, that had a Sedge Bottom, and tood to the Wall jut before me; but tanding there for ome time, I could hear no Beatings at all. I then tept down from the Chair, and after I had tood till for ome time, the Rh