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IT was some little time after my arrival, as I shall presently relate, that the experience I call the thrill came to me in England and, like all its predecessors, came through Nature. It came, that is, through the only apparatus I possessed as yet that could respond.
The point, I think, is of special interest; I note it now, on looking back upon the series as a whole, though at the time I did not note it.