This poor creature had counted the days by a light coming through a small opening.

The other girl remained six days under the ruin in a confined and distressing posture, her hands pressing her cheek until they had almost made a hole in it.

Two persons were buried under earthquake ruins at Messina for twenty-three and twenty-two days each.
Thomas Creaser gives the history of Joseph Lockier of Bath, who, while going through a woods between 6 and 7 P.M., on the 18th of August, was struck insensible by a violent thunderbolt.

His senses gradually returned and he felt excessively cold.

His clothes were wet, and his feet so swollen that the power of the lower extremities was totally gone and that of the arms was much impaired.