Excerpt from Dr. Zell and the Princess Charlotte: An Autobiographical Relation of Adventures in the Life of a Distinguished Modern Necromancer, Seer and TheosophistI found him living in a venerable mansion among New Hampshire hills, amid a savagery of woods, pastures and tangled forest, diversified by meadow, heath and swam p, near the shores of one of those picturesque lakelets which abound in that region.The place was lonely, Wild and almost gruesome in its solitude. It had once belonged to a local magnate of means and prestige, as a descendant in direct line of one of the early settlers of the country. But the fortunes of this once rich family had become gradually red need, and in re cent years the last representative of the line had expired, leaving the ancient house and neglected grounds - the tumble-down sheds and rambling barns and out-houses the mossy orchards and worn-out fields, to his remote heir, in the person of the author of these memoirs, who soon after appeared to take possession of the property.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.