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both when (he was well, and when fhe was ill. Once, when fhe was 

 ill, {he expreUed) by figns, a violent defire to drink of it, (for fhe did 

 not, while in the fit, fpeak fo as to be intelligible), and they having 

 brought her other water, (he would not let it come near her, but re- 

 jecfted it with figns of great averfion ; but, when they brought her 

 the water of this well, {he drank it greedily, her eyes being all the 

 while (hut. Before her lad fit came upon her, lb c fa id fhehadjufi: 

 three leaps to make, and flie would neither leap nor run more. And 

 accordingly, having fallen aileep, as ufual, flie leaped up upon the 

 ftone at the back of the chimney, and down again ; and having done 

 this three times, flie kept her word, and never leaped or run more. 

 She is now in perfect health. 



This account I had from the father, mother, and brother, whom I 

 examined feparately and together, and likewlfe from the girl herfelf, 

 fo far as fhe remembered ; for, as 1 have faid, fhe had no memory of 

 what paiTed while fhe was in the fit ; but fhe remembered very well 

 every thing that happened when fhe was not, and particularly her dreams. 

 And fhe told me, that fhe flept very well at night, had a good ftomach, 

 and was in every refped well till the fit felzed her. It began, fhe fays, 

 at her feet, and, like a coldnefs or numbnefs, crept upwards and up- 

 wards, till it came to her heart ; after which flie had no more fenfe or 

 feeling of the condition flie was in. 



What I have faid of this girlrememberlng nothing of what pafTed 

 while fhe was in the fit, is the cafe of all night-walkers. It is by this 

 chiefly that night-walking is diflinguifhed from dreaming; and it 

 proves to me, that the mind is then more difengaged from the body 

 than it is even in dreaming. For it is not only without the ufe of the 

 fenfes, but without memory, which a philofopher that I quoted above *, 

 thinks our mind will have no need of when it is difengaged from the 

 the body. 



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* oee p, 141. 



