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cloth, [which] did not cover it entirely.
I did not see any wound or mark of violence; but the body was putrified & swelled & the tongue hung out of the mouth.
The body was not so disfigured as the countenance so much altered as to prevent me from knowing it; I did know it to be my child.
There was a ditch near the place where the body was found, but it was not in the ditch. It is a dirty place, where people only go on [not occasions?]