ADVENTURES

OF

ELDER TRIPTOLEMUS TUB;

COMPRISING

IMPORTANT AND STARTLING DISCLOSURES

CONCERNING HELL;

ITS MAGNITUDE, MORALS, EMPLOYMENTS, CLIMATE, &C

PUBLIC L

501515

ASTOB LENOXX

RY

TILDEN P

NOATLINS

R

1949

L

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by ABEL TOMPKINS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED BY

GEORGE A. CURTIS;

NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

In which the reader hath the honor of an introduction to Mr.

Tub, and is made acquainted with the scene of his very

marvellous adventures.

CHAPTER II.

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Elder Tub ruminateth. An apparition of doubtful character

introduceth himself. He describeth hell as being a far

more tolerable place than it is generally believed to be; and

giveth a pleasing and very probable account of its good state

of society. .
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CHAPTER III.

Our hero muttereth some doubts as to the truth of Paddle's

account of hell and its society; Paddle reappeareth; he

condescendeth to enact the philosopher, and reasoneth the

points very convincingly; he describeth the amusements

of hell.

CHAPTER IV.

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The elder experienceth a huge expansion of ideas in regard to

the magnitude of the earth; whereupon Paddle, finding Mr.

Tub's ideas in a growing state, greatly addeth to their

enlargement by convincing him of the stupendous dimen-

sions of the lower world, and the numerousness of its

inhabitants.

CHAPTER V.

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In the midst of Elder Tub's ruminations Paddle reappeareth,

in a fashion beseeming himself and none other-He antic-

ipateth the remonstrance which was about to be entered at

the close of the last interview, and fully, and satisfactorily,

removeth the grounds thereof. Wherefore it behoveth the

reader well to consider this chapter, as he may herein find

his own similar objections to what hath gone before well

and truly answered..

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