Excerpt from The Montreal Medical Gazette, Vol. 1: Being a Monthly Journal of Medicine, and Collateral Sciences; February 1, 1845 The body was interred in a bank, and according to the report of the labourers, about four feet below the surface of the earth, close to or upon the foundation of an Old privy, and when observed was covered by a couple of boards. The earth having been frozen, the bones of the skeleton were removed by the aid of a pickaxe in detached fragments, so that nothing is known of the position in which the skeleton lay. An old leathern mitten and three half-pennies of a comparatively recent coinage were at the same time disclosed. N 0 buttons nor other vesti ges of wearing apparel were found though strict search was made. When first seen by me, the bones were promiscuously mixed together in a box, in the possession of the Beadle of the French Cathedral several of the vertebrae were wanting, but in other respects the skeleton was entire. The bones Of the leg were disarticulated from the feet, which were concealed by boots. These were of the Wellington shape, of a: common description, and of British manufacture, and in contact with the feet were socks of coarse grey worsted, considerably decayed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.