1288. CONCERNING THE VERY DEEP HELL That infernal genius, or fury, who was here and brought with him such a poisonous sphere, and who had sent an infant to me with a dagger and a vessel of poison, [see n. 1283], and later had done the same to another, was afterwards removed so that he might be sent back to his cadaverous hell. He proceeded slightly to the left, a little towards the temple and to a considerable distance in the same plane without descending. Afterwards he sank down, at first into a fire which appeared, then into a fiery smoke like that of a furnace, and soon afterwards beneath that furnace, for the place was represented as a great furnace. He continued to go towards the front where there were caverns which sloped downwards and to the sides in every direction, and there he sank down into that cadaverous stench. As he proceeded along the way he was continually thinking and intending evils, especially against the innocent, without any cause. The spirits around me were horrified and fled away. As he passed through the fire he uttered lamentations. 1748, Mar. 10. This hell is under the earth in the very dark caverns described above [see nos. 1246-49 and 1257-66].