The only true account of the trial and punishment of the good doctor, Gustavus Katterfelto, the greatest natural philosopher who ever lived or ever will live by his confederate and friend Roger Gossage.

"My name is Roger Gossage. I pray my handwriting be legible to you, but as I am a-ship, I risk the swells playing havoc upon my scrawl. Whichever lenses or magnifiers you may require to read on, I beg you fetch them now..."