JOHN H. KAIN.

N. B. This wall is 10 feet thick.


For the American Journal of Science, &c.

Benjamin Silliman, Esq.

Dear Sir,

Should you think the facts detailed in the following statement worthy of publication, you are at liberty to publish them. The knowledge of the first, I derived in the year 1802, from a gentleman and a lady, both inhabitants of the town where the person whose case is detailed, lived: of the third in 1802, from the same lady: and of the second in 1802, from a lady, a near relative of Mrs. S. When the facts were communicated to me, I immediately committed them to writing, and to avoid mistakes, read what I had written to the persons communicating them.

I am very respectfully,
Your Friend, and obedient Servant,
BENJAMIN W. DWIGHT.