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Such is a weak version of Carson's story, and he added : 

 " Since this adventure in dreams, I have hung suspended 

 from, or slid helplessly down, that awful brink into that si- 

 lent black space ; and when I have awakened in terror, I have 

 realized again the nightmare which oppressed me during 

 the moments I lay peering into the volcano." 



