afterwards; and I had a twittering in my left arm, which ceased after some minutes, and I was again something better. This condition lasted until the next morning, then I had a headache again and a twittering in all my limbs, still not so violent. In the afternoon, about three o’clock, it came again something less, and left me earlier: then I was quite well again.” “The Somnambulist was greatly affected by the _presence_ of Hauser. I heard that, afterwards, when she was asleep, she had said these words,—‘That was a hard struggle for me.’ She felt indisposition from this process even on the next day.” EV. The first sensation from magnetism is usually that of slight _vertigo_,—a state of musing or reverie succeeding, the mind being lulled into abstraction, as it is by the rippling of water, the busy hum of bees, or the murmuring of the Æolian-harp. I would explain this feeling by the term, _confusion of the senses_; for a certain period must elapse ere an external object make an impression on the mind. When, therefore, objects or sounds become _extremely rapid_, the perception is confused, and the mind, left as it were to itself, cannot follow the impressions _so as to associate them_, and thus the magnetic ecstacy ensues. ASTR. But Monsieur de Paysegur, who first excited _magnetic somnambulism_, magnetized trees and ropes, by which he converted those who clung to them into sleep-walkers. Dr. Elliotson, also, mesmerized a _sovereign_, by _merely looking on it_; and a girl, who intuitively _selected_ it from a heap of others, was instantly struck with _coma_. EV. The last is a very frail experiment. Paysegur often failed in his illustrations, and then the cunning juggler explained this, by affirming that the trees counter-magnetized each other. Now, whatever may be the influence imparted by this _traction_, the phenomena of _excited_ somnambulism are similar precisely to those _spontaneously_ occurring. Magnetic sleep, or ecstasis, is its precursor; and there is a total unconsciousness of it when awake. Here is one of those close analogies that are the most potent arguments on which the question of magnetism rests. For, in all the states alluded to, the interval of _ecstacy_ is _a blank_. And, as in the cases of intense alarm, as you remember, the mesmeric ecstacy will cause a sensitive girl to _forget the present_, while the scenes of youth and infancy pass vividly before her memory. Now the effects of the passes of magnetism are referred to _six_ degrees,—the chief conditions being those of sleep, somnambulism, and clairvoyance. The essence of the last, it seems, is combined with a blending of one’s own feeling and nature with those of others;—a reuniting, in fact, of body and soul once separated from that individual whole, which some philosophers, as Hecker, believed the whole human race to be. You observe my fidelity, Astrophel.