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This converſation, in the opinion of the whole company, afforded undeniable evidence of an overſtrained imagination. They all expreſſed their compaſſion for her ſituation; unanimouſly agreeing that ſhe was a ſenſible woman, without any thing extravagant in her ideas, except when her fancy took the road over the Giant-mountains. The Counteſs on her part, from the nodding and winking of the ring of critics that ſurrounded her, ſoon ſaw that ſhe was eyed with a ſhrewd ſuſpicion of her diſeaſe having ſhifted out of her limbs into her head. She thought the beſt way of removing ſo injurious a prejudice was, to relate, at length, her adventure upon the Sileſian borders. She was heard with the attention uſually beſtowed upon a tale that entertains for a moment, but of which not a ſyllable is believed. Thus ſhe experienced the fortune of the propheteſs Caſſandra, to whoſe admonitions Apollo had rendered every Trojan ear deaf, as a puniſh-

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