On Popular Eluftons. 2,3 



of divination, fecond fight, or 'Taijh as it is called 

 by the natives, confifts in a day-vifion : as I 

 know no better defcription of it than Thomfon's, 

 I fhall borrow his words. 



As when a (hepherd of the Hebride ifles, 



Plac'd far amid the melancholy main, 



(Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles. 



Or that aerial beings fometimes deign ^ 



To ftand embodied to our fenfes plain) 



Sees on the naked hill, or valley low. 



The whilft in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, 



A vafl aflembly moving to and fro ; 



Then all at once in air diilblves the wond'rous ftiovv. 



Cas. of Indolence, C. 1. 



A very diftind: view of the Second Sight may 

 be found in Martin's Hiftory of the Weltern 

 Iflands, with a large colledion of narrations, 

 furnifhed chiefly by the author's friends; feveral 

 communicated by the Seers themfelves. The 

 vifions are frightful, and uneafy to the Seer, 

 who thinks himfelf unfortunate in poflefling this 

 faculty. His appearance to the fpe6tators, 

 during a vifion, (for he alone perceives it) is, 

 as defcribed, fomething like that of a patient in 

 catalepfy ; he becomes immoveable, his eyes 

 are fixed, and the eye-lids fometimes reverted. 

 However if another Seer be prefent, the firft 

 can make him participate the vifion, if he has 

 prefence of mind enough to touch him. They 

 do not always underftand the meaning of what 

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