Upon a paper
attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has
written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a
reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the Ms.
illuminates.
This mysterious subject he treats, in that Essay, with his usual
learning and acumen, and with remarkable directness and
condensation. It will form but one volume of the series of that
extraordinary man's collected papers.
As I publish the case, in this volume, simply to interest the
"laity," I shall forestall the intelligent lady, who
relates it, in nothing; and after due consideration, I have
determined, therefore, to abstain from presenting precis
of the learned Doctor's reasoning, or extract from his statement
on a subject which he describes as "involving, not
improbably, some of the profoundest arcana of our dual existence,
and its intermediates."
I was anxious on discovering this paper, to reopen the
correspondence commenced by Doctor Hesselius, so many years
before with a person so clever and careful as his informant seems
to have been. Much to my regret, however, I found that she had
died in the interval.
She, probably, could have added little to the Narrative which she
communicates in the following pages, with, so far as I can
pronounce, such a conscientious particularity.
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