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travel, the most inclusive of all, unexpected, unpremeditated, and by people with no psychic pretensions. It is condensed from the S.P.R. Proceedings: The City of Limerick, sailing from Liverpool to New York, met, when two days out, a storm which lasted nine days, during which she was badly damaged, and saw neither sun, stars, nor any other vessel. On the eighth night of the storm, Mr. S. R. Wilmot, one of the passengers, able to sleep for the first time, dreamed that he saw his wife, who was in the U.S.A., come to the door of his state-room, clad in her nightdress. She halted there, having apparently noticed that there was someone in the berth above her husband, but came cautiously forward, stooped down, kissed her husband, and, after gently caressing him for a few moments, quietly withdrew. Next morning Mr. William J. Tait, who occupied the other berth, which, from its position in the stern gave a view of the one beneath, chaffed Mr. Wilmot on the visit paid him by the unknown lady, and, being pressed to explain, stated that while lying awake he had seen the exact incident which his companion had dreamed, and had never doubted the reality of what he saw. On meeting his wife in Watertown, Conn., Mr. Wilmot was at once asked by her: "Did you receive a visit from me a week ago?" "A visit from you!" he exclaimed. "Why, we were more than a thousand miles at sea." "I know," she replied, "but it seemed to me that I visited you." Wilmot asked what grounds she had for her belief, and she explained how, owing to the stormy weather and reported