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author : not being able to amufe myfelf by reading, 
I arofe, to fee whether I could walk any better, but, to 
my great mortification, found that I was more giddy 
and could hardly walk at all. I then returned to the 
bed, and feeling myfelf thirfty, called for fome mutton 
broth ; it being dinner time, the fervant, inftead 
of bringing the broth, covered the table as ufual, not 
knowing that I was any way difordered. Seeing the 
dinner on the table, I got out of bed again, and with 
no fmall relu&ance, fwallowed down a plate-ful of the 
broth, but could neither tafte bread nor meat, on ac- 
count of a naulea, which howevever was not accompa- 
nied with any inclination to vomit. 
I now ftaggered again to the bed, and took up the 
book I had left there, with a defign to divert the 
attention of my mind into fome other channel than 
that into which the prefent confufion of my ideas had 
hurried me: at this time, felf-prefervation fuggefted to 
me the expediency of taking a vomit; but as I felt very 
little pain, and was not apprehenfive of much danger, 
I refolved not to fpoil the fuccefs of my experiment 
by evacuating the camphire before I fhould difcover 
what its effedts would be. Hitherto, amid a tumult of 
indigefled ideas, I had retained fome degree of fenfi- 
bility ; but now there arofe fuch a noife in my ears, 
the confufion and giddinefs of my head increafed fo 
much, that all confcioufnefs of what was prefent, as 
well as memory of what was paft, were foon entirely 
obliterated, fo that whether I endeavoured to lead in 
the book I had taken up, or what elfe I did, I 
know not. 
Fortunately, at this juncture, one of my young 
gentlemen came into the room, who told me, aftei I 
K 2 recovered, 
