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Geneva, people appointed there to inspect the dead, 9

Genoa, dead people there, dressed according to their rank, ib.

Godfrey, the Honourable Mrs. remarkable trance of, 43

Green, Anne, remarkable story of, 62

Glover, Mr. story related by, of a person restored to life after hanging, 73

Greeks, old, singular method of burial, 85

Graves, danger of opening too soon, 107

Grave, opened too soon in Aberdeen, fatal consequence attending, 115

Grey, Thomas, Marquis of Dorset, corpse found after seventy years burial, 136

Guavnerius, Alexander, curious account of a subterranean cavern by, 146

Hawe’s, Dr., extract from his addresses to the public, 80

Hale, Sir Matthew, his observations on burying in churches, 98

Hall, Bishop, extract from his Sermon on church burials, 99

Hackney, Alice, her body found after 175 years interment, 136

Interment, premature, great danger of, 1

Interesting account from an Italian paper, 145

Jews, their manner of burying their dead, 9

Janin, Monsieur, story of a child apparently dead, recovered by, 71

Joseph the Second, prohibits burials in churches, 118

Kiovia, City of, subterranean burying places near, 146

Lady buried alive in Russia, 40

Lamps, ever-burning ones of the Ancients, 121 to 135

Mercier, Monsieur, very remarkable story related by, 31

Mold Church, in Flintshire, singular epitaph there, 98

Montpelier, remarkable circumstance that happened there, 104

Maximus, Olybius, curious Lamp made by, 131

Mary-at-Hill, St., body found there after 175 years burial, 136

Magnus, Albertus, his body found after 200 years interment, 139

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