walnut; the other, and the most powerful, was the Chama macrophylla.

"The twelve shells tried were-Imperator cookia, Cerethium orth. :-Pyrula reticulata, Sea urchin (Australia), Voluta catcastonea, Strombus gigas jun., Pyrula Melongena, Purpura hippocastanum, Melanatria fluminea, Monodonta declives (size of a nut), Murex adustus, Chama macrophylla.

"Another young lady I was trying at the same time, on the 9th, was similarly affected; but as I refrained from giving her the Chama, and as the action was not so rapid as in the other case, I was enabled so to control the essence that she was only in a state of torpor for a few hours: in passing I may state that the Auricula Auris mida I gave her produced 'cold, contraction of the hand, shiver right through me, pain up the arm, pain in the eyes and head, dizzy feel.'

"The deductions gathered from the foregoing experiments are:-That a strong Magnetic power resides in numerous tropical shells-that that power pierces walls—that some shell-fish are poisonous—and that the shell being manufactured from the fish, partakes of its poisonous quality; and therefore shells are not only injurious, but dangerous to delicate persons, and ought to be removed from all living and sleeping

The foregoing incidents and deduction, will doubtless interest the reader; and I hope the knowledge will be applied to the practical benefit of his friends and others, who, unaware of the energy of the "invisible," around them, are punished in health, and temper, by the beautiful irritables which decorate their home life.

There are some shells which of course are not injurious, but innocuous and some beneficial; some will, while held in the hand, act as a narcotic, produce a soft "delicious" feeling: some produce chill, some warmth. If I were to lay down a law for guidance, it would be, That all shell-fish which are innocuous, or beneficial as food for man, the shells are safe for

display or handling; while all shells, the produce of fish unfit for human food, are unsafe for display or handling.

Strong constitutions may not consciously feel what delicate constitutions do.

Pursuing my investigations, the thought arose, how or why are these effects produced; and as one discovery seems to be the highway to another; and a Clairvoyant about the same time, having in trance, declared that she saw colours proceeding from shells and stones; I determined to ascertain the results which might be produced under favourable conditions. I therefore darkened a room, so that to me all was invisible, and placed in a corner of that room, the lady referred to in page 40. After allowing a sufficient time to elapse, so as to be certain that neither of us could see any object in the room, I went out, selected a number of differently coloured foreign and British shells, mixed them and brought them into the darkened room wrapped in paper. After resting a short time, feeling my way to the piano, on the opposite side of the room to the lady, I commenced to lay the shells down, one by one; when to my delight, the sensitive exclaimed, "Oh! how beautiful! I see a red light coming up all over a shell, and I see a smoke above the light." I then laid down another, and it produced a blue light, and so on. I placed the shells in a row, according to the lights asserted to be issuing from the shells, the lady correcting me when I placed any shell in a wrong place; she asserted, that the mild soft mellow lights were very beautiful; that by the lights she plainly saw me, and the several articles of furniture in the room-that the lights from some, were more intense than from others; and that all of them had the appearance of smoke above the flame, more or less dense, as we sometimes see above a candle. I wrote the names of the colours on pieces of paper, and placed them against the asserted colours, and then opened the doors and shutters, and found the proof of the truthfulness of the whole, by the external colour of the shells, corresponding to the colours as seen by the lady, with one exception, the external

of which was white. Since then, I regret I did not break the shell, to ascertain whether under the layer of white, there was not the colour as stated by the sensitive. I, from the foregoing, and subsequent experiments, saw how it was, that brimstone held in the hand affected the nerves of taste, how medicines applied externally and internally, produced so powerful an effect on the human body-that it was not the solid or body, that produced the result, but the soul essence or energy, which as a positive, being absorbed by a negative, produced results-that there is a general principle in nature, which is more easily observed than understood; by which affinity, develops the soul-power; as iron free from magnetism, when merely stroked with a magnet, developes powers, which reason and observation would never conceive it possible for iron to produce, if eyesight did not extinguish debate, by demonstration; so the souls of minerals, vegetables, and animals, when allied to body, develope results, which but for proof, would not stand the test of reason; but which we, from our being accustomed to the phenomena, take for granted as common, logical, and to be expected from the amalgamation of bodies; but the thin-skinned depth of which feeling, is at once displayed, if any apparently new development in nature is produced by the same laws. Then reason, in books, pamphlets, and newspapers, is seen to be rough shod, riding down the facts, sometimes by one even of Oxford or of Cambridge.

Before quitting the subject, to me the very interesting subject, of shell-lights; I will here refer to information given me a few months ago by a lady as to the belief in Kent of "Shell Fire."-That when shell fire appeared on a person's dress in company, or on articles of clothing in the wardrobe of any person, it is the death-sign for that person-that she has seen the shell-fire under both circumstances, followed by the immediate death of the parties, though they were at the time well; that when at the sea-side, by Ramsgate, she had often handled shells, and there has seemed to come out of them a pale pink light; that one particular shell produced a "happy

feeling," and that there is a shell which she and her playmates used in fun to give to persons to hold, which produced a withering of the hand, making it, all "wrinkley." I presume, therefore, that the "premonition lights" being so like the lights emanating from shells, they are popularly called "Shell Fire." I find that on an average, the proportion of seers are, as I before stated, one female in three, and one male in five. Personally I have never seen such lights; the nearest approach was seeing fish bones in a dark cupboard, and a body of blueish white light, from the inside of a canister containing broken-up loaf sugar; and again a few weeks ago, when the light or phosphorescence from a "Finnan haddock” was so great, that I could see the words in a book, and my clothing was made visible when I placed the fish near me; the light came from the back bone. Herrings move in shoals, often from eight to ten miles long by two to four miles wide, and of a depth unknown. The place they occupy at night is phosphorescent. Some fish in the southern latitudes produce a perfect sea of light. STONES also shed light, and I have spent many weeks and months in experimenting on the soul-powers of stones. I find they have their colours according to their natures, and that the lights shed have a powerful effect on human health. There are not poisonous qualities in stone as a general rule, but there is a powerfully healthy and unhealthy quality in them. Memory, while I write, wells up many of the scenes I have witnessed from the experiments made with stones, some of a grotesque, and others of a painful kind; and as time and opportunity have only allowed me to examine the vestibule of knowledge on these occult operations in nature, while the palace is beyond; I would here give a little of what I have observed, so as to excite those who are younger, and who are less pressed on the battle-field of life, to pass in and do good service to their fellow-man, by discovering the harmonies of nature, and so lead the mind of man to adore the Creator of such a globe of wonders.

STONES of a particular kind, have powerful curative ener

gies; this I discovered accidentally, through the perceptive powers of a CLAIRVOYANT or clear seer; one who, when her eyes are closed and body is in a peculiar magnetic state, has her perceptions opened, independent of the usual visual powers. Many deny the existence of such a power; they laugh, deride, and sneer at the assertion of such a power; to such I would in passing, advise a suspension of their risible powers, and in place thereof, take a business-like consideration of the subject by personal examination; possibly, I may in the proper place, give a proof by the evidences which upset my disbelief in the existence of the power called clairvoyance; at present our attention is to be fixed on stones.

If Stones, of a particular quality, have the power of neutralising disease, by a patient holding a given one in the palm of the hand, or having it applied to the sole of the foot, or to any diseased part of the body; the stone has effected the cure without any diminution or pulverization of the solid. The cure must have been effected by something unseen out of the stone, which, entering the human system, effects the cure. On pursuing my experiments in the same manner I had done with shells; I found that, as I before stated, every stone shed a light, which lights were of divers colours,-white, black, red, yellow, and blue, with their shades. That those lights were absorbed by the body of the patient, and by the law of demand and supply, the nerves and ligatures of the human body became conductors of the lights to the diseased part; and in proportion to the intensity of the light issuing from the stone into the body, was the rapidity of the cure effected. Some stones appeared to have a great affinity to the nerves, and their effect on the patient was so great, as would in olden days have had the credit of the results, thrown on the shoulders of the "devil." Indeed, in passing, I may say, that the earnestness of my researches in going far and near to collect stones of various kinds, and trying their power on diseased persons and others, caused a report to be spread in my neighbourhood, that I was in league with that notable personage; and if I had not understood the fact