To the prior class belong, first, all those many instances in which the blood swelled up and filled the ampulla and commenced to sink again in volume on the same day, whether after a few moments or after several hours of fulness. Again, the diary records _three_ cases in which it so rose one day and sank the next; _four_ cases in which it rose one day and sank the second day after, keeping the ampulla completely full for the entire intermediate day; _six_ cases in which there were two such intermediate days; _two_ with three, and _four_ with four such intermediate days of complete fulness. We have thus nineteen cases recorded in the diary, to which we should add, 202 perhaps, an equal number for the first category. A complete period, so to call it, of the fulness may vary, therefore, from a few moments to five consecutive days. The second class comprises ninety-four instances of fulness opened and not completed during the octave. The varieties in these are even greater than in the former class. In _nineteen_ cases the fulness, or, at least, its last phase, commenced on the closing day; in _five_ cases, on the day before; in _nine_, on the third last day; in _eleven_, on the fourth; and in _twenty-two_ on the fifth day, counting from the closing of the octave; in _twenty-six_ cases, the fulness began on the sixth day; and in _two_ cases, as far back as the seventh day, counting from the close of the octave. We have here twenty-eight of these incomplete periods, longer than the longest of the closed or complete periods, just mentioned, still further complicating any question as to the lengths of these periods of fulness. Whenever, during an octave, the ampulla is locked up at night _full_, it will be found _full_ the next morning. When it is locked up at the close of an octave in that state, it will be found in the same at the first opening of the next celebration, months afterwards. We said that the mass changed its volume only when in a fluid condition. We may now venture to add that such changes take place only in public, and never while the blood is closed up in the closet, or _armoire_. In examining the diary very carefully, we find that, in the vast majority of cases, the level of the mass as stated when taken out--whether it be at the ordinary level, or somewhat elevated, or very high, or full--perfectly agrees with the level at which it was stated to stand when last put up, whether the day before or at the close of the preceding octave. In a number of cases, indeed, the diary is silent or obscure on the point; but its language often seems to imply this fact, or to take it for granted. Nowhere does it state the reverse in general terms; and we cannot find a single instance recorded which establishes the contrary. The blood is always found at the level at which it stood when last put up.