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Clergyman, who lived in the Maſſachuſetts, and had entertained an opinion for more than fifty years, that ſuch ſtories were only the vapours of diſtempered and weak brains, was convinced at laſt in the following manner: Being in his own garden he ſaw his own likeneſs or apparition; dreſſed juſt as he then was, paſs by him, and look him full in the face. He ran into the houſe in a great ſurpriſe, told his family what I had ſeen, that he was convinced of his former error, and that he feared he ſhould live but a few days. His words proved true, for he died in a ſhort time after.