VI 
THE EDITOR’S PREFACE. 
lant bachelor, at the manly age of three¬ 
score years and three. 
Of the account that he gives of him¬ 
self and his unearthly visitation, I will 
hazard no opinion, excepting that, altoge¬ 
ther, it is a most miraculous affair. Even 
conceding to the sceptics that have so 
much annoyed him, that the events he 
relates were nothing but the impressions 
of a long hallucination, attendant upon 
illness, it must be acknowledged as a 
singular phenomenon in physiology. 
Of the reality of his interview and 
conference with a preternatural being, 
he is himself fully persuaded. The in¬ 
vention, with the numerous Vocabulary 
