I should have continued here as an humble attendant upon Madam Venus, but some busy tattlers, who delight in mischief, whispered a tale in Vulcan's ear, which roused in him a fit of jealousy not to be appeased.

Without the least previous notice he took me one morning under his arm, as I was waiting upon Venus, agreeable to custom, and carried me to an apartment I had never before seen, in which there was, to all appearance, _a well_ with a wide mouth: over this he held me at arm's length, and saying, "_Ungrateful mortal, return to the world from whence you came_," without giving me the least opportunity of reply, dropped me in the centre.

I found myself descending with an increasing rapidity, till the horror of my mind deprived me of all reflection.

I suppose I fell into a trance, from which I was suddenly aroused by plunging into a large body of water illuminated by the rays of the sun!! I could, from my infancy, swim well, and play tricks in the water.

I now found myself in paradise, considering the horrors of mind I had just been released from.