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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
106
But
one
thing
I
forgot
all
this
while,
which
is,
That
although
thoughts
are
the
natural
language
of
Souls;
yet
by
reason
Souls
cannot
travel
without
Vehicles,
they
use
such
language
as
the
nature
and
propriety
of
their
Vehicles
require,
and
the
Vehicles
of
those
two
souls
being
made
of
the
purest
and
finest
sort
of
air,
and
of
a
human
shape:
This
purity
and
fineness
was
the
cause
that
they
could
neither
be
seen
nor
heard
by
any
human
Creature;
when
as,
had
they
been
of
some
grosser
sort
of
Air,
the
sound
of
the
Air's
language
would
have
been
as
perceptible
as
the
blowing
of
Zephyrus.
And
now
to
return
to
my
former
Story;
when
the
Empress's
and
Duchess's
Soul
were
travelling
into
Nottinghamshire,
(for
that
was
the
place
where
the
Duke
did
reside)
passing
through
the
Forrest
of
sherewood,
the
Empress's
Soul
was
very
much
delighted
with
it,
as
being
a
dry,
plain
and
woody
place,
very
pleasant
to
travel
in,
both
in
Winter
and
Summer;
for
it
is
neither
much
dirty
nor
dusty
at
no
time:
At
last
they
arrived
at
Welbeck,
a
House
where
the
Duke
dwell'd,
surrounded
all
with
Wood,
so
close
and
full,
that
the
Empress
took
great
pleasure
and
delight
therein,
and
told
the
Duchess
she
never
had
observed
more
Wood
in
so
little
compass
in
any
part
of
the
Kingdom
she
had
passed
through.
The
truth
is,
said
she,
there
seems
to
be
more
Wood
on
the
Seas
(she
meaning
the
Ships)
than
on
the
Land.
The
Duchess
told
her,
The
reason
was,
that
there
had
been
a
long
Civil
Warr
in
that
Kingdom,
in
which
most
of
the
best
Timber-trees
and
Principal
Palaces
were
ruined
and
destroyed;
and
my
dear
Lord
and
Husband,
said
she,
has
lost
by
it
half
his
Woods,
besides
many
Houses,
Land,
and
movable
Goods;
so
that
all
the
loss
out
of
his
particular
Estate,
did
amount
to
above
Half
a
Million
of
Pounds.
I
wish,
said
the
Empress,
he
had
some
of
the
Gold
that
is
in
the
Blazing-World,
to
repair
his
losses.
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