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( 12 ) the finger, they ſignify to a woman to have three hmſband?, and a man riches and preferment. If 'they have three large lines on the joint of the wriſt, it denotes eaſy child-bearing and not ſubject to miſcarriage. If the nails of the hand be tranſparent, red, long, and of a fair complexion, it is a ſign of long life; but if cloudy, dark, or of a lead colour, the contrary. If the line branch towards the fore and middle fingers, and end blunt, it betokens riches and preferment to men ; and to women, kind huſbands. If there happen a cut or ſeparation between your two laſt fingers, it denotes loſs if not ruin to the party, by commerce or law ſuits. Thus much for theſe lines; and for ſignifications.

Dreams and their Interpretations.

DREAMS (though ſome, very ignorant in ſuch rare myſteries, have ſlighted them) are; by the ſage and wife men of all ages, very ſignificant, and that the foul, when the body repoſes, being-diſencumbered from groſs and weighty cares for the fleſh, by this unknown myſterious way, confabulates or converſes with ſpirits or angels, who bring to its knowledge future events very ſtrange and wonderful, as in ſcripture we find it in Pharoah’s, Nebuchad-nezzar’s, and other dreams, that exactly came to paſs according to their interpretations. But not to prolong the matter,! proceed by the rules of art, to give the interpretations of dreams.