same turns, without once coming in contact with any
thing that stood in his way.

"He told the hour accurately by Mr K----'s watch.

"He played several games at dominoes with the different members of
our family, as readily as if his eyes had been perfectly open.

"On these occasions the lights were placed in front of him, and he
arranged his dominoes on the table, with their backs to the
candles, in such a manner that, when I placed my head in the same
position as his own, I could scarcely, through the shade,
distinguish one from the other. Yet he took them up unerringly,
never hesitated in his play, generally won the game, and announced
the sum of the spots on such of his dominoes as remained over at
the end, before his adversaries could count theirs. One of our
party, a lady who had been extremely incredulous on the subject of
mesmerism, stooped down, so as to look under his eyelids all the
time he played, and declared herself convinced and satisfied that
his eyes were perfectly closed. It was not always, however, that
Theodore could be prevailed upon to exercise his power of vision.
Some words, written by the mesmeriser, of a tolerable size, being
shown to him, he declared, as Mademoiselle M---- did on another
occasion, that it was too small for him to distinguish.

"Towards the conclusion of the sitting, the patient seemed much
fatigued, and, going to the sofa, arranged a pillow for himself
comfortably under his head; after which he appeared to pass into a
state more akin to natural sleep than his late sleep-waking. Mr
K---- allowed him to repose in this manner for a short time, and
then awoke him by the usual formula. A very few motions of the hand
were sufficient to restore him to full consciousness, and to his
usual character. The fatigue of which he had so lately complained
seemed wholly to have passed away, together with the memory of all
that he had been doing for the last hour.

"I must now pause to set before my reader my own state of mind
respecting the facts I had witnessed. I perceived that important
deductions might be drawn from them, and that they bore upon
disputed questions of the highest interest to man, connected with
the three great mysteries of being--life, death, and immortality.
On these grounds I was resolved to