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Rh water, by way of keeping me company. The ladies now retired, leaving me alone with the Recorder who came and sat beside me. He said:—

"My Specimen, to-morrow we start to see the seats of Government in Britain. I may tell you that the ruined city near to us is Glasgow; the river you saw is the Clyde." When I heard this, I at once recognised my native city, but it must have grown tremendously before its day of destruction came. When I knew it, it was not more than one-tenth the size that the ruined city must have been, yet I could recognise many of the general features in a dim, indistinct way. The Recorder went on:—

"I shall take you past Edinburgh, Newcastle, Manchester, London, Liverpool, and then we shall return here. We can do all this overland travelling in the same way and by means of the same power that we use every day, none of the distances are great, and there are no large sheets of water to pass over.