[8] Equivalent in time to ninety-three and forty-seven with us; in effect corresponding to eighty and forty.]
[9] About ninety; in time, one hundred and six.]
[10] Seventy; in time, eighty-three.—Narrator.]
[11] The centuries, hundreds, thousands, etc., appear to represent multiples of twelve, not ten.—ED.]
[12] Aluminium?—ED.]
[13] Here, and here only, the name is written in full; but the first part is blurred. It may be Alius (Ali), Julius (Jules), Elias, or may represent any one of a dozen English surnames. The single cipher, employed elsewhere throws no light on it.—ED.]
[Transcriber's Notes: A page was torn in our print copy, causing a few lines in Chapter I to be illegible. The missing words have been indicated with [***]. Also, "authypnotism" was corrected to "autohypnotism.">[