EV. While the medical committee of the Humane Society were framing those scientific rules which have rendered the process of resuscitation so successful, I remember especially one pale and melancholy girl, who glided in before us like a spectre. She had attempted suicide, but her intention was happily thwarted, after she had been for many minutes in the water, and was apparently lifeless. True, the mental agony which prompts to such an act, will often overwhelm sensation; but this creature was _conscious of her act_, and assured us that the sensation of drowning was but _an intense feeling of faintness preceding a sinking into insensibility, with a short spasmodic struggle; an uneasiness rather than a pain_. When Clarence therefore, recounting his dream, exclaims,— “My God, methought what _pain_ it was to drown!” I believe, he should rather have referred his feelings to his _recovery_, if the words of the pale girl were true; for, when consciousness and sensation are returning, the feeling is intense. Throughout the body, as it is recovering from _apathetic_ numbness, the sense of returning circulation of the blood is terrible: an acute sensation of _pins and needles_ in the brain and the marrow of the spine. No wonder, then, that these resuscitated beings will request that _no efforts_ may be made, should they again be in the state of suspended animation. The sensation on being born is probably as acute as that on dissolution. IDA. Then there _is_ consciousness? EV. The evidence of Dr. Adam Clarke will illustrate this interesting question. Yet I differ somewhat with him, regarding so perfect a consciousness during submersion. In his life, you will see the following dialogue with Dr. Lettsom, in which Clarke describes his own case of immersion: