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 ¬ CHAPTER VII. ¬The Author resolves to leave Armata, and to return to the Earth — He prepares for his Voyage, regains the connecting Channel, and passes it in safely, but is qftemards wrecked on the Coast of' Ireland, and proceeds from thence to London. ¬The enjoyments of this great and delightful city were now drawing to a close. — I had been long passionately attached to Morvina, though I have not troubled the reader with the progress of my passion. — Her accomplishments and beauty absorbed every thought, but, alas! they were suddenly embittered by the dreadful com- munication of her father, that, though he had not betrothed, nor had she engaged herself to any of the illustrious suitors who were pursuing her, yet that I must not think of impeding her advancement in the world by my attentions, which, he said, had been observed. — What could I answer to this, or how could I complain ? — Let the reader indeed only figure to himself a man dropping down upon our surface, an alien ¬o 3 not ¬