"I watched, and at last I saw nothing but a substance as jelly. Then the ladder was ascended again ... [Here the MS. is illegible] for one instance I saw a Form, shaped in dimness before me, which I will not further describe. But the symbol of this form may be seen in ancient sculptures, and in paintings which survived beneath the lava, too foul to be spoken of ... as a horrible and unspeakable shape, neither man nor beast, was changed into human form, there came finally death.