The editor of the Palmyra Freeman, their neighbor, adds to the above, that "in the fall of 1827, Joseph Smith, of Manchester, Ontario county, reported that he had been visited in a dream by the spirit of the Almighty, and informed, that in a certain hill, in that town, was deposited this Golden Bible, containing an ancient record of a divine nature and origin. After being thrice visited thus, as he states, he proceeded to the spot, and found the bible, with a huge pair of spectacles. He has been directed, however, not to let any mortal being examine them [i.e., the plates and the stone-eyed spectacles] under no less penalty than instant death! It was said that the leaven of the bible were plates of gold, about eight inches long, six inches wide, and one-eighth of an inch thick [i.e. 8 plates are one inch thick, 8 long and 6 wide.] On these plates were characters, or hieroglyphics, engraved." The whole of the plates are said to weigh about thirty pounds; which would be in gold near eight thousand dollars, beside the value of the engraving. One of Joseph Smith's proselytes, is, continues the Palymra Freeman, "Martin Harris, an honest and industrious farmer of Palmyra." He is said to have shown some of these characters to Professor Samuel L. Mitchell, of this city, who would not translate them. Martin Harris returned, and set Joseph Smith to the business of translating them: who, "by placing the spectacles in a hat and looking into them, Joseph Smith said he could interpret these characters."