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 tormenting sensations, which cannot be described."

"The road my human or supernatural coachman had taken seemed to be very uneven, or, perhaps, he did not know the road, for I felt every moment the most violent jolts, which increased my anxiety still more, by the additional apprehension of being overturned. My bones, which already had been hurt very much by my falling down in the pleasure-house, seemed to be quite dislocated. I had been in that state of agony about half an hour, when a most violent jolt overturned the coach. A voice roared, "Jesu Maria!" Methought I felt the freezing hand of death upon my heart, and lost the power of recollection."

"At length I was roused from that state of insensibility, by the most excruciating pains. I opened my eyes; two men, each of them holding an horse by the bridle, were standing by me; a countryman, with a lanthorn,