Copiado da minha resposta para P: Quem foi o primeiro telepata?:
1755: Uma viagem ao mundo no centro da terra: prestando contas das maneiras, costumes, leis, governo e religião dos habitantes, suas pessoas e hábitos descritos ...: Na qual é introduzida, a história de um habitante do ar, um livreto anônimo publicado no 1755; uma reimpressão resumida da 1802, intitulada Viagem de Bruce a Nápoles e subida ao Monte Vesúvio, está disponível em Google Livros. É o conto de um visitante de uma civilização utópica que habita um globo de diâmetro de uma milha no interior da Terra. Da avaliação de Bleiler:
The humans are longhaired, bearded, and to some extent can read minds and character. They live to extreme old age, two hundred years not being unusual.
Na verificação do Google Livros, p. 11:
"Know, O son of earth! that thou art not the first, by many, that chance has thrown upon our globe, neither is it impossible for us to visit your world: that god whom we truly adore has blessed us with those gifts that you are strangers to. We can, when we please, transport ourselves to your regions; and what surpasses even that, we have the gift of knowing the thoughts of those we converse with. By this means we are much better acquainted with your earthly brethren than you are yourselves, who can judge only by appearances. Often do you clasp that man to your bosom as a friend, who at the same time is your greatest enemy, and only professes friendship, while you have wherewithal to make him welcome; but when that fails, he will not only desert you, but leave you to starve in a dungeon, and pretend he never heard your name. These things, and worse, are common in your world: I have often made an excursion thither myself; and having the gifts I before mentioned, have seen things greatly unworthy of those beings that are, like ourselves, made after the image of our creator. Perhaps at a proper time I may tell you some particulars, but for the present we will confine ourselves to what relates to the world we are now upon, and which is in the centre of your globe."
Das pp. 33-34, talvez uma instância de telepatia em ação:
I rose the next morning as soon as it was light and strolled about the town till breakfast-time; and when I came home, my landlady perceiving the perturbation of my mind, took every method in her power to alleviate my anxiety.