There is no doubt that but for the dream the bridge would have fallen, as there was no reason whatever to attract my attention specially to the bridge. Though small, the bridge was an important one, as its situation was peculiar. The picture that was dreamt was so strong that it is even now fixed in my mind as plainly almost as it was then. I have no doubt whatever that a special warning wan given me by a higher intelligence. I have never at any time had any other similar experience.

" H. C. Reynolds."

' From Mrs. Wheeler, 106 High Street, Oxford:-1

"I dreamed I went down the back-stairs at Hestum into the kitchen, and as I stepped off the last step on to the floor something severed my big top(without hurting me at all), and I saw it roll across the floor, The next morning I went down those stairs before the kitchen shutters were open, and with bare feet(I wanted some water), and just as I got to the last step I remembered my dream and looked carefully (I think I took the shutter bar down and partly opened the' shutter, but I do not feel quite certain), and then saw a knife lying on its back on the floor with the edge up, just where I should have put down my leg and I stepped off the bottom stair, I am not given to having vivid dreams particularly,"

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The following, the last example that I will cite of a dream being the means of actually averting a calamity, is perhaps the most useful, as Captain Scott was enabled to save several lives thereby.

From Bishop Hale: - 1

" 9th March, 1892.

"The colony of Western Australia (called at the time the Swan River Settlement) was founded in 1829. Captain Scott must have gone there very shortly after that period.

"In the year 1848, I being then Archdeacon of Adelaide, went to Western Australia in attendance upon the Bishop of Adelaide. Captain Scott showed great readiness to assist the bishop, and both he and I received from him many acts of kindness.

"He, one day, told me about his dreams and the circumstances connected therewith. He told it all with such animation and such varying expressions of face that he gave one the idea that the things he spoke of were passing vividly before his mind's eye as he described them.

"1 was, of course, greatly struck by the narrative and said I should like very much indeed to have it in writing. He said at once that I should have it; he would have the copy of his log, which he had by him, transcribed for me. I received the MS. a few days afterwards.

"His last illness was a long and wearisome one, and the old man was pleased when any friend would look in and sit with him for a time. I was then bishop of the church and I was aware that the clergyman of his punish (Freemantle), Mr. Bostock, was in the habit of sometimes taking his seat by the old man's bedside, in addition to the performance of the usual devotional services.

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"I never had upon my own mind the slightest doubt about the truth of the narrative, but I wan quite aware that some persons to whom I might chance to show it might feel doubtful about it, and it occurred to me that Mr. Bostock's friendly visits us the old man afforded an excellent opportunity for getting some declaration such as that which he did obtain.

"Matthew B. Half "Bishop"

Captain Scott's account -

Dr. Kinsolving1 of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, writes as follows to Dr.

Hodgson:-

"2,016 Locust Street, "Philadelphia, 14thOctober, 1891.

"My Dear Sir,

"The dream was this. I seemed to be in woods, back of the hotel at Capon Springs, W. Va, when I came across a rattlesnake which, when killed, had two black - looking rattles and a peculiar projection of bone from the tail, while the skin was unusually light in colour. The impression of the snake was very distinct and vivid before my mind's eye when I awoke in the morning, but I did not mention the dream to any one, though I was in the act of telling my wife while dressing, but refrained from so doing because I was in the habit of taking long walks in the mountains, and I did not wish to make her nervous by the suggestion of snakes.

"After breakfast I started with my brother along the back of the great north mountain, and when about twelve miles from the hotel we decided to go down out of the mountain into the road and return home. As we started down the side of the mountain I suddenly became vividly conscious of my dream, to such an extent as to startle me and to put me on the alert I was walking rapidly and had gone thirty steps when I came on a snake coiled and ready to strike. My foot was in the air, and had I finished my step I would have trodden upon the snake. I threw myself to one side and fell heavily on the ground. I recovered myself at once and killed the snake with the assistance of my brother, and found it to be the same snake in every particular with the one I had had in my mind's eye. The same size, colour, and peculiar malformation of the tail.

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"It is my belief that my dream prevented me from treading on the snake, but I have no theory on the subject, and get considerably mixed and muddled when I try to think on the line of such abnormal experiences.

"G. H. Kinsolving."

"Christ Church, Clinton and Harrison Streets,

"323 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.

"19thApril, 1892.

"Mr. Richard Hodgson. "My Dear Sir,

"My brother, the Rev. George H. Kinsolving of Philadelphia has enclosed me your request for my recollection of his premonitory dream last summer at Capon Springs. Constant occupation during the season just ended is my apology for a somewhat tardy compliance with that request. The circumstances as I remember them were these: -

"We started, he and I together, off from the Springs Hotel just after breakfast to go over the mountain to Rock Enon Springs. Our first stop was on the crest of the North Mountain, and near it we had some conversation with two boys who were out huckleberrying. I asked them about their experience with rattlesnakes, and they replied they had killed several during the season. Later, my brother and I were clambering up a steep rough bushy cliff, and as he was in front I said 'You had better look out for rattlesnakes. This is a very snaky sort of place.' At neither of these references to the subject of the snakes did my brother seem to be reminded of or to make any allusion to his dream of the night before of which he had not then told me "After walking some way beyond this we missed our trail and found ourselves descending the mountain. Suddenly my brother, who was at my side and a little in front, threw his body back and said, 'My! I like to have stepped on that fellow '! I think I caught him by the shoulder as, with one foot raised just over the reptile which was coiled under some bushes and a bit of brushwood, he reeled backward.