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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
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Captain Adam Seaborn
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The
total
subjection
of
the
country,
and
the
destruction
of
its
virtues
and
happiness,
would
have
ensued,
but
for
the
timely
appearance
amongst
them
of
a
man
of
singular
ingenuity.
This
man,
named
Fultria,
invented
the
air
vessels,
one
of
which
I
have
before
spoken
of.
He
also
invented
the
engine
of
defence,
the
description
of
which
was
prohibited.
The
knowledge
of
its
construction,
and
the
manner
of
using
it,
was
confined
to
a
few
select
Good
men,
who
were
bound
to
secrecy
by
the
most
solemn
obligations.
I
could
obtain
no
other
idea
of
it,
than
that
it
was
a
vast
machine
moved
upon
wheels,
and
rendered
of
but
little
specific
gravity,
by
means
of
the
apparatus
employed
in
their
air
vessels,
by
the
help
of
which
it
could,
on
an
emergency,
be
raised
into
the
air
for
a
short
time,
to
cross
rivers
or
broken
ground.
It
was
propelled
by
means
of
a
great
number
of
tubes,
projecting
very
obliquely
through
the
bottom
near
the
ground,
through
which
air
was
forced
with
such
prodigious
violence,
that
the
resistance
of
the
earth
and
atmosphere
impelled
the
machine
forwards:
in
this
way
it
was
moved
with
astonishing
velocity.
From
all
sides
of
this
engine
a
great
number
of
double
tubes
projected,
through
which
two
kinds
of
gas
were
caused
to
issue.
These
gases
uniting
at
the
extremities,
produced
a
flame
of
intense
heat,
like
that
of
our
compound
blow-pipe
on
a
large
scale,
which
flame,
according
to
tradition,
was
ejected
with
such
force,
as
to
consume
every
thing
for
half
a
mile
in
every
direction.
The
interior
of
the
machine
was
sufficiently
capacious
to
admit
men
enough
to
direct
its
motions
and
prepare
the
gases,
and
also
the
materials
and
apparatus
necessary
to
their
production.
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