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My friend about whom you ask has been dead now about nine years. He first told us the story in the year 1867, and has since often alluded 1 See p. 37, first note. 2 Compare cases 503 and 519, and see p. 237, note. IV.] ''BORDERLAND CASES. 501 to it. In conversation I learnt that this friend was Mr. Jones's tutor, living in the same house, for several years, and was most deeply respected by him. We have ascertained that he was at Peterhouse in 1843 ; but the name Bohun does not appear in the Cambridge Calendar of that date, and is probably a mistake. We have not been able to discover any public notice of the accident, and the death was probably not registered. [It ought to be observed that the percipient was probably falling ill at the time of his vision ; and that in his subsequent delirium the order of events may have become confused. Still, it seems unlikely that his recollection of the anxiety that succeeded the vision and preceded the arrival of the news is a piece of pure imagination.] (541) Erom Mr. George M. Barker, Brynderw, Dolgelly. July, 1884. Travelling by train from London to Brighton in company with my tutor, we sat opposite an elderly lady, who seemed to doze. About halfway, she awoke with a cry, and was much agitated. My tutor soothed her, and asked her what was the matter. She stated that she had seen her son (who was in the navy) drowning before her eyes, and that it was so horribly real, even to the minutest detail of dress, &c., that she could not believe that she was travelling in a railway carriage. She vowed that she had not been to sleep. My tutor, with her permission, called upon her next day, and an acquaintance struck up, which lasted for some time. About a fortnight after the scene in the carriage, news duly arrived of the death of the son at sea, while rowing from the ship to the shore. This event occui'red in the year 1870 or 1871.