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Rh PART V.—SATURN".

CHAPTER I.

TITAN.

Look then abroad through nature to the range of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, wheeling unshaken through the void immense.

E ascended from the wondrous scene of the fire-land and vast, hissing mists, and the huge waving sea of the giant planet. We pierced the regions of clouds around him, and at length we came to the vast, black expanse of ether, studded by a million stars. Again we launched into the infinite.

Thus once more we plunged into space—infinite space,—dark, airless ether, with the myriads of glittering stars far off on every side. Again we got upon a meteor ring, and swept on through space toward the mighty system of the Ringed World. The journey was long—