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 faint idea by turning the white of an egg into a glass of water. The materials it was built of were just as soft, and shadowed forth towers, with cupolas and galleries in the form of sails, quite transparent, and swimming in the thin air. Our earth floated above his head, like a large, deep red ball.



He then perceived a number of beings, that were assuredly meant for what we should call