[224] Mallett: “Northern Antiquities,” Bohn’s edition, pp. 401-405.
[225] In the “Quarterly Review” of 1859, Graham gives a strange account of many now deserted Oriental cities, in which the stone doors are of enormous dimensions, often seemingly out of proportion with the buildings themselves, and remarks that dwellings and doors bear all of them the impress of an ancient race of giants.
[226] Dr. More: “Letter to Glanvil, author of ‘Saducismus Triumphatus.’”
[227] J. S. Y.: “Demonologia, or Natural Knowledge Revealed,” 1827, p. 219.
[228] Pausanias: “Eliæ,” lib. i., cap. xiv.
[229] We apprehend that the noble author coined his curious names by contracting words in classical languages. Gy would come from gune; vril from virile.
[230] P. B. Randolph: “Pre-Adamite Man,” p. 48.
[231] On this point at least we are on firm ground. Mr. Crookes’s testimony corroborates our assertions. On page 84 of his pamphlet on “Phenomenal Spiritualism” he says: “The many hundreds of facts I am prepared to attest—facts which to imitate by known mechanics or physical means would baffle the skill of a Houdin, a Bosco, or an Anderson, backed with all the resources of elaborate machinery and the practice of years—have all taken place in my own house; at times appointed by myself and under circumstances which absolutely precluded the employment of the very simplest instrumental aids.”
[232] In this appellation, we may discover the meaning of the puzzling sentence to be found in the Zend-Avesta that “fire gives knowledge of the future, science, and amiable speech,” as it develops an extraordinary eloquence in some sensitives.
[233] Dunlap: “Musah, His Mysteries,” p. iii.