Over-reaching himself

A gentleman of Glasgow, sauntering alone in North-wood, attempted to get some hazle-nuts from the mouth of an old coal-pit; but, by over-reaching himself, tumbled ten fathom deep. Recovering himself at the bottom, he felt some pains from his breast and thigh; but his greatest trouble was from his deplorable situation. His friends, who missed him, made all possible search, but it was the seventh day before he was found; all which time he had subsisted on a few nuts he had gathered and put in his pocket before the accident happened. He was very much emaciated when taken out, his legs were blanched and quite benumbed; but his spirits were good, and his desire for food was not great.