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I do not think any of us mentioned it to Mr. Boyd ; he may have heard it from someone else, for it caused quite a sensation in Edinburgh. I have no reason to believe that the dress of the figure was in any way characteristic of Miss Stewart. ^ 1 A narrative somewhat resembling this was given in Tinsley's Magazine for December, 1873, in connection with a family named Fitzgerald, alleged to have resided at Ballyreina, in Ireland. We have not been able to trace the virriter of this paper, or to discover any place called Ballyreina. There is a village in Ireland called Ballyraine ; but we cannot find that any family of the name of Fitzgerald has been connected with it. 622 SUPPLEMENT. [chap. [The resemblance of the figure seen to the lady who died is entirely problematic. It might almost have been foretold as certain that the resemblance would form a prominent item in any third-hand version of the occurrence.] (667) From the Methodist Magazine for March, 1819, p. 208, — a letter to the Editor. Rochester, February 4th, 1818. Sir, — At the Sheffield Conference of 1817, when examining the young men in the public congregation, I was greatly surprised by the extraordinary declaration of one of the preachers. The efiect his narrative produced upon the audience induced me to request him to commit to paper what he had so distinctly detailed. As it contains a well-authenticated account of what infidelity has afiected to deny, and many well-informed Christians receive with suspicion and doubt, your insertion of his letter to me will at least afibrd some further eAddence on a question which is of such high interest and importance to the world. j. Gaulter.