found it well provided with eatables, with the addition of ſeveral flaſks of Chios wine, and a cruſe of oil. Though the lamp diſcloſed all the horrors of my dreary priſon, the ſenſation of hunger ſoon overpowered that of diſguſt. I immediately ſhoved a number of ſkeletons together, and placed them ſo as to ſerve me for a table and chair. I now ſate myſelf down before my baſket, and made as hearty a meal as a ſexton, when he has dug a grave in the morning before his breakfaſt.
‘In the courſe of a few days, as I gueſſed, for time in a ſubterraneous cavern moves on leaden wings, I heard a noiſe above me; the ladder of endleſs rounds deſcended, and I ſaw a man trip down it, whom I conceived either to be a companion in misfortune or an executioner. But when I beheld my phyſician and friend, Theophraſtus, my joy was equal to my ſurprize: and his voice ſounded as gratefully in my ears
