**In Two Letters from a learned friend of mine in Scotland.
I.
**To Mr. JOHN AUBREY, Fellow of the Royal Society.
SIR,
FOR your satisfaction I drew up some queries about the second-sighted
men, and having sent them to the northern parts of this kingdom, some
while ago, I received answers to them from two different hands,
whereof I am now to give you an account, viz.
Query 1.
If some few credible, well attested instances of such a knowledge as
is commonly called the second-sight, can be given ?
Answer.
Many instances of such knowledge can be given, by the confession of
such who are skilled in that faculty: for instances I refer you to
the fourth query.
Query 2.
If it consists in the discovery of present or past events only ? or if
it extend to such as are to come ?
Answer.
The second-sight relates only to things future, which will shortly
come to pass. Past events I learn nothing of it.
Query 3.
If the objects of this knowledge be sad and dismal events only; such
as deaths and murders ? or, joyful and prosperous also ?
Answer.
Sad and dismal events, are the objects of this knowledge: as sudden
deaths, dismal accidents. That they are prosperous, or joyful, I
cannot learn. Only one instance I have from a person worthy of credit,
and thereby judge of the joyfulness, or prosperity of it, and it is
this.
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