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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
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CHAPTER
XIV.
The
Author
examines
the
records
of
the
Assembly.--Grounds
of
proposal
for
admittance
to
the
order
of
Worthies.--Shell
fish
of
Symzonia.--Great
quantities
of
Pearls,
and
the
use
to
which
they
are
applied.
I
was
allowed
free
access
to
the
records
of
the
Assembly:
and,
having
made
such
proficiency
in
the
Symzonian
language
as
to
read
it
with
facility,
I
derived
much
amusement
and
instruction
from
the
various
recommendations
for
admittance
to
the
distinguished
orders
which
had
been
stated
to
the
Grand
Council
and
placed
on
record
during
a
long
course
of
ages.
These
records
were
much
too
voluminous
to
admit
of
my
reading
them
in
course.
I
therefore
contented
myself
with
opening
them
at
hazard,
and
reading
whatever
chanced
to
present
itself.
One
man
was
proposed
to
be
admitted
to
the
order
of
Worthies
by
the
title
"Wise,"
because
he
had
given
evidence
of
superior
imagination
and
ingenuity;
he
having
fancied
that
he
had
discovered
by
studying
the
laws
of
matter
and
motion,
that
the
Internals
were
inhabitants
of
the
concave
side
of
a
hollow
sphere;
and,
reasoning
from
analogy,
that
the
convex
or
outer
side
of
that
sphere
must
be
inhabited
by
a
people
enjoying
a
wider
range
of
action,
and
more
extended
views
of
objects
floating
in
unlimited
space:
that
the
suns,
moons
and
stars,
which
they
saw
imperfectly
by
refraction
and
reflection,
were
only
visible
through
a
dense
atmosphere
in
their
world,
but
must
of
necessity
be
directly
visible
to
the
inhabitants
of
the
External
World
in
all
their
effulgence.
He
had
written
a
book
to
explain
his
ingenious
theory
of
an
External
World,
in
which
he
had
endeavoured
to
show
by
various
calculations,
that
his
extravagant
hypothesis
was
not
absolutely
beyond
the
limit
of
possibility.
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