lie ties-ires to be regarded simply as the
historian of the Ko-sierucitins, or as an es
sayist upon their belief. As furnishing an
example of the stvle of the work, the old
storv related bv l'r. Dot in the time of
Charles II., and reproduced bv Mr. Jen
nings may If quoted with reference to a
umgular adventure in Maflordslure. A
countryman emplovud at the close of a cer
tain uav in dieting a trench came upon an
immense stone in the centre of a fieid, and
bv great labor si'ceeedi d in removing it,
lty a singniar combination of talent in this
individual, the old historian tells the reader
how a man succeeds, bv ulilizih? local
a; l.ancts in the shape of trees, iiraining
access to the cavern. Without following
hiui tbronirii all the dark and mysterious
passages he had to traverse in his curiosity,
no doubt unwittingly, after Rosicrucian re-
rearch, we take up the narrative: "till
the light streamed at a distance, but still
there was no sound to interpret the mean
ing of the light or to display the character
of this mysterious place in which the coun
tryman tound himself entangled hopelessly
like a kuiirht of romance in an enchanted
world. The discoverer bv this time stood
Mill with fear. Hut at last, summoning
courage, and recommending himself de
voutcdly to God, he determined to com
plite his discovery. Above, he hud been
working in no strange place; the field he
well knew, the wocxls were very familiar
to him, and his own hamlet and his wife
and family were only a few miles distant.
