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larly and brightly from my arm, shoulder, and head. Though 

 I turned about pretty smartly, and shifted my position, I 

 found it impossible to shake off the nickering flames. When 

 I walked on they continued with me for two or three min- 

 utes, disappearing only when the violence of the blast was 

 somewhat diminished. I felt no unusual sensation beyond 

 the stinging of the hail, and no sound except that of the 

 storm." 



The adventures of John Stewart, who for many years 

 drove a mail-gig between Dunkeld and Aberfeldy, Scotland, 

 as given by an English paper, are well worth recording. 

 On an extremely dark night, he and another man, climbing 

 a rocky, heathery height in Rannock, were all at once set on 

 flames by some mysterious fire, which appeared to proceed 

 from the heather which they were traversing ; and the more 

 they tried to rub the flames off, the more tenaciously they 

 seemed to adhere, and the more the fire increased in bright- 

 ness and magnitude. Moreover, the long heather, agitated 

 by their feet, emitted streams of burning vapor ; and for the 

 space of a few minutes they were in the greatest consterna- 

 tion. They believed that they barely escaped a living cre- 

 mation. Of course their liberal share of native superstition, 

 and the gloom of the night in the weird wilderness remote 

 from human habitation, rendered their position the more 

 alarming. 



A wonderful phenomenon is noted by a gentleman living 

 in Cheltenham, England. He was returning from Great 

 Yarmouth to his house, a distance of three miles, and took 

 the road of the Denes, intending to cross by the lower ferry. 

 Before reaching it, a dark cloud coming from the south-east, 

 off the sea, suddenly surprised him, and drenched him with 



