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THE event on which this fiction is founded. has
been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the
physiological writers of Germany, as not of im-
possible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as
according the remotest degree of serious faith to
such an imagination yet, in assuming it as the
basis of a work of fancy, I have not considered
myself as merely weaving a series of supernatural
terrors. The event on which the interest of the
story depends is exempt from the disadvantages
of a mere tale of spectres or enchantment.