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270 TRAVELS
and in diferent circumftances ; and I find miyfelf fatisfied as to
the exiftence of fome natural caufe or principle which has hitherto
remained unknown: it 1s wrapt up in obfcurity, and is as yet
inexplicable to the underftanding. Iam very far from attempt-
ing, after the Baron’s example, to account for it; though I think
that a folution of this problem may be referved for a period of
higher improvement in the knowledge of nature, the ftudy of
which has been fo fuccefsfully purfued, and fo rapidly advanced,
in the courfe of the prefent century. I faw my fellow traveller,
as incredulous as myfelf, fall into a profound fleep by the mere
motion of the magnetifer’s fingers; I heard him fpeak in his
fleep, and reply to whatever queftions I propofed to him; I faw
him again awake by the fimple motion of the magnetifer’s fingers,
while I was unable to roufe him from his fomnolency, though I
brought fire clofe to his hand, an experiment to which he was as
infenfible as a dead body. He awoke, after fleeping from five to
fix hours, remembering nothing of what he had faid, denying
obftinatcly that he had been afleep, and yielding with difficulty
at laft to the authority of his watch, and the teftimony of all
thofe who had witnefled the circumftance. I might mention a
number of fadts relative to this fubject, by which I fhould be able
to prove, that in thefe trials there could be neither connivance
nor impofture, nor previous arrangement; but this doctrine {till
lies too much under fufpicion for me to dwell any longer upon it.
_I thall only add, that two Englifh travellers, better informed, and,
if, poflible, greater infidels than. myfelf refpeCing ‘mefmerifm,
happening
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