Produced by Julie Barkley, S.D., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber's Note: Italicized text is indicated with _underscores_. Upright text used within italicized passages for emphasis is indicated with +plus signs+. Blackletter text in the original is shown here within \back slashes\. Greek has been transliterated and is shown as #word#. Inconsistent or archaic spelling, punctuation, and capitalization have been retained as printed. The spacing of chapters and sections matches that of the physical book, and no attempt has been made to match the Table of Contents. A few obvious misprints, such as missing letters or spaces, have been corrected. They are listed at the end of this document, along with more detailed notes about this transcription. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Library of Old Authors. [Illustration: Cotton Mather.] THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRYALS OF SEVERAL WITCHES LATELY EXECUTED IN NEW-ENGLAND. BY COTTON MATHER, D.D. TO WHICH IS ADDED A FARTHER ACCOUNT OF THE TRYALS OF THE NEW-ENGLAND WITCHES. BY INCREASE MATHER, D.D. PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE. LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, SOHO SQUARE. 1862. INTRODUCTION.