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7 before, but yet she durst not stir from her seat. She again turned from the horrible and melancholy spectacle, and resuming courage, alter a little reflection, got up with a design to ascertain herself the reality of the vision, by going nearer to it; but lo! it was vanished!

This extraordinary sight proved a very good admonition to her: for, taking it for a warning of he approaching dissolution, she, from that hour began to settle her worldly affairs, and had just time to see them in a regular posture, when she was taken ill of a plenrisy which carried her off in seven days.

A Remarkable Apparition which appeared to Mr. T. Lilly.

the first Sabbath day, in the year 1749, Mr Thomas Lilly, the son of a farmer in the parish of Kelso, in Roxburghshire, a young man intended for the church of Scotland, and who then had made ae small progress in literature, remained at home to keep the house, in company with a shepherd how all the rest of the family, excepting a maid-servant, being at church. Ihe young student and the boy being sitting by the fire, whilst the girl was going to the well for some water, a venerable old gentleman, clad in an antique garb, presented himself, and alter some little ceremony, desired the student