62 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



"7:00 p.m. The pulse was alarmingly intermittent. There was 

 often a pause of two seconds between beats. However, the subject was 

 quite unaware of the fact, and perfectly comfortable. 



"8:00 p.m. The subject complained of difficulty in breathing, as 

 though a tight bandage were tied over the left side. The pulse was now 

 almost, and sometimes quite, imperceptible. The arms became weak; 

 in a few minutes they became absolutely paralyzed. The subject began 

 to be a little scared. However, in about ten minutes the loss of power 

 passed away, and he became perfectly comfortable, though disinclined 

 to move a finger. 



"8:45 p.m. The sea suddenly turned purple and tilted up to the 

 eaves of the veranda, and instantly regained its normal aspect. The 

 victim was not particularly excited at this sight; indeed, throughout 

 the experiment I was struck by the very matter-of-fact way in which he 

 received the various visions, I myself being far more keenly interested 

 in them. The legs now became partially paralyzed for a few minutes. 

 There was no other symptom whatever till 8 :45 p.m., when very 

 indefinite stationary spots of purple and blue-green were seen on the 

 beach at a distance of fifteen or twenty feet. They gradually assumed 

 the shape of rather conventionalized thistle-heads, some purple and 

 some emerald. For a moment the shingle beach appeared to be turn- 

 ing into a bed of flowers, but they quickly faded away. When I went 

 out and struck a match before the bungalow the flowers suddenly 

 reappeared. Whenever a match was struck they became more vivid. 

 It was now twilight and when the flowers appeared the beach became 

 brighter. 



"I now lit the lamp and placed it by the subject. The thistles had 

 faded away. Suddenly the sea — which was gray — turned green, and 

 became covered with symmetrically arranged spots of violet, which 

 rotated on their axes and passed off to the right. There were three 

 bathing-machines half way down the shingle, and the spots passed 

 behind them. 



"I now turned down the lamp. The shingle instantly became a bed 

 of blue flowers ; some unknown little plant which produced a short spire 

 of blue blossoms, and a few green blades. I asked the subject to direct 

 me to one spire which was higher than the others, and trod on it, when 

 il disappeared. I turned up the lamp ; the flowers disappeared. 



"The subject now saw a large cutter about half a mile from shore, 

 which sailed rapidly along and passed behind the bathing machines. 

 He made a sketch of it as it approached, to give me the relative pro- 

 portions of the cutter and the machines, and then described it as close 

 in. As a matter of fact there was a small cutter about a mile off shore, 

 and about one tenth the size of his sketch. 



"9:25 p.m. On the beach, where the flowers had been seen before, 



