Miss Girzie at these words started up, and said, Sir, sir, just a minute. I can hear no more, cried I; "it is plain you intend to make a bargain with my friend...

[T]here are other Bodies beſides Shells found in the Earth, reſembling the Teeth and Bones of ſome Fiſhes, […] the Vertebres of Thornbacks and other Cartilagineous Fiſhes there found, and ſold for Stones among the Gloſſopetræ, […]

And cold the poor man lies at night, / And so goes out the year.

His depersonalization causes a great deal of stress as he searches for an authentic personal identity.