When animation revived in me, my soul was still impressed with these terrible ideas: I looked round with fear, expecting to behold the Ministers of divine vengeance.
For the first hour, my senses were so bewildered, and my brain so dizzy, that I strove in vain to arrange the strange images which floated in wild confusion before me.

If I endeavoured to raise myself from the ground, the wandering of my head deceived me.

Every thing around me seemed to rock, and I sank once more upon the earth.

My weak and dazzled eyes were unable to bear a nearer approach to a gleam of light which I saw trembling above me.

I was compelled to close them again, and remain motionless in the same posture.
A full hour elapsed, before I was sufficiently myself to examine the surrounding Objects.