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that they have so long escaped the notice even of scientific 
men who live near or in those regions, and who frequently 
visit them. 
Two of the best known citizens of Greenville — a town at 
the foot of Moosehead Lake — who have lived there very 
many years, if not all their lives, who have had these 
Jumpers in their employ, denied or doubted the existence of 
any of these phenomena, declaring that these so-called 
Jumpers were merely drunk or playing. My guide in the 
woods of northern New Hampshire, who had spent his 
whole life in those wilds, who was old enough to be a great- 
grandfather, denied, without reservation, the whole claim ; 
but, after investigating the subject with me, was compelled 
to admit its genuineness. One of my fishing companions in 
the woods, a clear-brained and vigorous man of business, 
and a man of the world, who, for seventeen years had passed 
his summers in these regions, knew nothing of the subjedb 
until this season when I called his attention to it. All 
around these districts there are physicians, not in them but 
near them — for in the summer season the umpers scatter, 
to a certain degree, over the farms in the vicinity — and every 
year physicians and men of science, experts in various 
realms, visit for recreation the districts where these Jumpers 
most abound ; but if they see them they do not notice them, 
or if they notice them they do not understand them, or if 
they understand them they say nothing about them, and do 
not attempt to bring, or at least do not succeed in bringing, 
the phenomena into science. 
vol. hi. (third series). 
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