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VERY one knows that the moon is inhabited by a man with a bundle of sticks on his back, who has been exiled thither for many centuries, and who is so far off that he is beyond the reach of death.

He has once visited this earth, if the nursery rhyme is to be credited, when it asserts that— The Man in the Moon Came down too soon, And asked his way to Norwich;” but whether he ever reached that city, the same authority does not state.