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and at times they fancy they can hear 
the spirits of departed friends whistling 
round their houses, and noticing all the 
transactions of the living. Singular as 
some of these notions and opinions may 
appear, there is much to be met with 
in Christendom equally at variance with 
reasonand 1 have heard from the pul¬ 
pit, in New-England, the following lan¬ 
guage : “ I have no doubt in my own 
mind that the blessed in Heaven look 
down on all the friends and scenes they 
lelt behind, and are fully sensible of all 
things that take place on earth!” 
CHAPTER VIII. 
This chapter, and the concluding re¬ 
marks of the narrative, will be collated 
from a journal kept by Cyrus M. Hus¬ 
sey ; and if there appear occasionally 
some incidents similar to those record¬ 
ed in the preceding account, it is be¬ 
lieved the value and interest of this his- 
