In the second act, the title character sees phantom mammoths while floating in "the abyss of space," and discusses an episode in which his father cured a lamb that had been stung by a reptile.  When the title character returns to Earth in Act 3, he wonders why his infant son is sleeping beneath a cypress tree and learns that he has only been gone for two hours.  In the preface, the author disavows having read works by Solomon Gesner and Alfieri on a similar subject, and refers to Bishop Warburton's Divine Legation to explain the absence of allusion to a future state in the Old Testament.  He a
In the second act, the title character sees phantom mammoths while floating in "the abyss of space," and discusses an episode in which his father cured a lamb that had been stung by a reptile.  When the title character returns to Earth in Act 3, he wonders why his infant son is sleeping beneath a cypress tree and learns that he has only been gone for two hours.  In the preface, the author disavows having read works by Solomon Gesner and Alfieri on a similar subject, and refers to Bishop Warburton's Divine Legation to explain the absence of allusion to a future state in the Old Testament.  He also discusses his decision to name the title character's wife Adah and his sister-in-law Zillah, though they are nameless in the Bible.  Near the end, a whirlwind scatters a fruit sacrifice, after which the title character kills someone whose sacrifice was accepted.  FTP, name this "mystery" written in 1821, a dramatic work by Lord Byron about the first murderer.
In the second act, the title character sees phantom mammoths while floating in "the abyss of space," and discusses an episode in which his father cured a lamb that had been stung by a reptile.  
Cain