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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
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CHAPTER
VII.
Description
of
the
first
view
of
the
coast.--The
Author
names
the
discovered
country
Symzonia.--Enters
the
harbour.--His
first
interview
with
the
Symzonians.--Sketch
of
their
appearance.--He
commences
the
study
of
the
Symzonian
language.--Wonderful
powers
of
mind
displayed
by
the
natives.--Account
of
an
ærial
vessel.
The
mild
oblique
rays
of
the
morning
sun
gilded
to
our
view
"A
scene
surpassing
Fancy's
vision."
Gently
rolling
hills
within
an
easy
sloping
shore,
covered
with
verdure,
chequered
with
groves
of
trees
and
shrubbery,
studded
with
numerous
white
buildings,
and
animated
with
groups
of
men
and
cattle,
all
standing
in
relief
near
the
foot
of
a
lofty
mountain,
which
in
the
distance
reared
its
majestic
head
above
the
clouds,
offered
to
mariners
long
confined
to
a
wide
waste
of
water
the
highest
reward
for
their
enterprise
and
perseverance;--the
heartfelt
satisfaction,
that
it
was
to
their
courage
and
skill
that
their
fellow
citizens
would
be
indebted
for
the
contemplation
of
so
much
loveliness.
Here
there
was
nothing
wanting
to
a
perfect
landscape.
Plain,
hill,
and
dell
sometimes
rising
with
an
easy
slope,
at
others,
broken,
abrupt,
or
craggy;
with
an
ocean
in
front,
and
a
mountain
in
the
rear,
it
was
complete.
When
the
bright
light
of
the
sun
first
presented
distant
objects
distinctly
to
our
view,
there
were
great
numbers
of
vessels
and
boats
in
sight,
mostly
near
the
shore.
We
had
repeatedly
seen
them
during
the
night
flitting
past
us
like
the
shades
of
departed
mortals.
Immediately
on
observing
our
extraordinary
appearance,
they
all
retired
towards
an
opening
in
the
land
to
the
northward,
whither
we
followed
them,
and
soon
found
that
the
apparent
opening
in
the
shore
was
occasioned
by
an
island
a
short
distance
from
the
coast,
having
a
roadstead
within
it,
in
which
were
several
vessels
at
anchor.
After
hoisting
out
our
boats,
and
seeing
our
guns
in
order,
I
stood
in
to
the
roadstead,
with
my
boats
ahead.
As
we
approached
the
anchorage,
the
vessels
all
retired
into
the
mouth
of
a
river
which
they
ascended
until
quite
out
of
sight.
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