3195. A great deal can be told about their very grievous punishments, so grievous, and also diverse-tearing apart their bodies, their heads, their earthly minds, intensifying their efforts to resist and the consequent anxieties-that they desire nothing more than their own death, indeed, long for death, but they cannot die. I have watched many such punishments higher up overhead, a little toward the front on high, but on account of their cruelty they cannot be mentioned. They have been shown to me for hours at a time, one male or female after the other. 1748, 18 Sept.