othing. I heard the clock
strike the quarter, but could not get out of my sleepy state. Mr
Townshend then woke me with some rapid transverse movements from
the middle of the face outwards, which instantly caused my eyes to
open, and at the same time I got up, saying to him, 'I thank you.'
It was a quarter past eleven. He then told me, and M. Desor
repeated the same thing, that the only fact which had satisfied
them that I was in a state of mesmeric sleep, was the facility with
which my head followed all the movements of his hand, although he
did not touch me, and the pleasure which I appeared to feel at the
moment when, after several repetitions of friction, he thus moved
my head at pleasure in all directions."--(P. 385 to 388.)

This we think a most interesting and valuable document, and the best key
we have ever seen to the _facts_ of mesmerism. It is the production of a
resolute, religious, and philosophic mind, and bears all the impress of
truth; it proves that there are facts worthy of the most careful
investigation--it proves a power of inducing a comatose or sleep-waking
state--an influence exercised by one mind over another--and it goes far
to prove a physical attraction subsisting between two persons in
mesmeric relation. But, on the other hand, how strikingly do the
phenomena here described differ from those exhibited by the other
patients. In those cases, to use the general proposition of Mr
Townshend, "the sleep-waker seems incapable of analysing his new
sensations while they last, still more of remembering them when they are
over. The state of mesmerism is to him as death."--(P. 156.) Here, on
the other hand, the patient analyses all the sensations he experienced,
and recollects them when they are over; here, notwithstanding the
efforts of the mesmeriser, the production of the mesmeric effect, and no
resistance on the part of the mesmerisee, the latter does not become
clairvoyant; "_je ne distinguais rien_," are the emphatic words of
Professor Agassiz.

Precisely similar is the testimony of Signor Ranieri, the historian--

Having been mesmerised by my honourable friend Mr Hare Townshend, I
will simply describe the phenomena which I experienced before,
during, and after my mesmerisation. Mr Townshend commenced by
making me sit upon a sofa, he sat upon a chair opposite me, and
keeping my hands in his, placed them on my knees. He