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his pulse sink gradually, until at last I 
could not feel any by the most exact and 
nice touch. Dr. Baynard could not feel 
the least motion in his heart, nor Mr, Skrine 
perceive the least sort of breath on the bright 
mirror he held to his mouth. Tien each of 
us, by turns, examined his arm, heart, and 
breath ; but could not, by the nicest scru- 
tiny, discover the least symptoms of life in 
him. We reasoned a long time about this 
odd appearance as well as we could; and 
finding he still continued in that condition, 
we began to conclude that he had indeed 
carried the experiment too far; and et last 
we were satisfied that he was actually dead, 
and. were just ready to leave him. By nine 
o’clock in the morning, in autumn, as we 
were going away, we observed some motion 
about the body, and, upon examination, 
found his pulse and the motion of his heart 
gradually returning: he began to breathe 
gently and speak softly. We were all asto- 
nished, to the last degree, at this unexpected 
change; and after some further conversa- 
tion with him, and with ourselves, went 
away fully satisfied as to all the particulars 
of this fact, but not able to form any ra- 
tional scheme how to account for it.”” 
On this strange anecdote, the Revelations 
of the Dead Alive are founded ; but the au- 
thor carries this idea much farther than Dr. 
Cheyne. He supposes that, for every day 
his hero lies in this trance of death, he 
lives through a year of futurity in vision ; 
but, unlike other visions, things are pre- 
sented with all vividness and determination 
of real life. The object, therefore, of the 
sleeper is, to prolong his trance as much as 
possible ; andthe only obstacle toits duration 
is in the natural cravings of hunger. At last 
he finds a remedy for this in the writings of 
Humboldt, from whom he learns that the 
Ottomans subsist for months together on 
one good meal of a peculiar kind of clay. 
Accordingly he visits the savages, purchases 
the requisite food, and lying down on the 
heights of a giant-tree, he swallows the 
clay, and gives himself up to death. His 
trance lasts for one hundred and ninety-nine 
days and a quarter; and for every day, he 
runs through a year of futurity. But in this 
respect he has not shewn much invention, 
as he only shews this futurity in its thoughts 
and opinions of the present: he seldom 
ventures to shew the actual state of the 
time to come, and when he does, he evinces 
a small portion of imagination. On the 
other hand, his language is powerful, his 
ideas original, and his work by no means 
belongs to the common order of every-day 
publications. 
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