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 near the stately Pantheon, and found him not: and thus to me, who knew not his name (if indeed he had one) he seemed rather to have vanished from Oxford-street—than to have removed in any bodily fashion. The reader may choose to think of him as, possibly, no more than a sublunary druggist: itmay be so: but my faith is better: I believe him to have evanesced, or evaporated. So unwillingly would 1 connect any mortal remembrances with that hour, and place, and creature, that, first brought me acquainted with the celestial drug.

Arrived at my lodgings, it may be