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Gregory, for example, who had been recently 

 reading an account ■ of Hudson's Bay, dreamed 

 one night that he spent a winter in that part 

 of the world, and suffered intensely from frost. 

 Upon awaking, he discovered that he had 

 thrown off his bedclothes during sleep ; the 

 same gentleman, having applied a bottle of hot 

 water to his feet one night, dreamed that he 

 was walking up Mount iEtna, and felt the 

 ground warm beneath him. " Dr. Eeid," says 

 Dr. Abercrombie, " relates of himself that the 

 dressing applied after a blister on his head 

 having become ruffled so as to produce con- 

 siderable uneasiness, he dreamed of falling into 

 the hands of savages, and being scalped by 

 them." 



The horrid visions of nightmare result from 

 the dire oppression of dyspepsia ; but the suf- 

 ferer dreams that some monster of great weight 

 is seated upon his chest or pit of the stomach. 

 A sudden noise, occasioned perhaps by some- 

 thing falling in the room, may originate a 

 dream terminating in an explosion of cannon. 

 We have conversed in whispers with a person 

 sound asleep, but who would, while in that 

 condition, talk about the transactions of the 

 day or week, not unfrequently revealing secrets. 

 But Dr. Abercrombie gives a far more curious 

 example of this kind of mental ivakefulness 

 during sleep, than any which has ever come 

 under our own notice. He vouches for its 

 truth. The subject was an officer in the ex- 

 pedition to Louisburgh, in 1758. He had this 



