Perhaps, reader, thou mayest be pleased with an account of this whole equipage, as peradventure thou wilt not, while alive, see any such.

The coach was made by an eminent toyman, who is well known to deal in immaterial substance, that being the matter of which it was compounded.

The work was so extremely fine, that it was entirely invisible to the human eye.

The horses which drew this extraordinary vehicle were all spiritual, as well as the passengers.

They had, indeed, all died in the service of a certain postmaster; and as for the coachman, who was a very thin piece of immaterial substance, he had the honor while alive of driving the Great Peter, or Peter the Great, in whose service his soul, as well as body, was almost starved to death.
Such was the vehicle in which I set out, and now, those who are not willing to travel on with me may, if they please, stop here; those who are, must proceed to the subsequent chapters, in which this journey is continued..