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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
9
CHAPTER
XX.
The
Author
arrives
in
the
United
States.--Consigns
his
cargo
to
Mr.
Slippery.--Is
reduced
to
poverty
by
the
failure
of
Mr.
Slippery.--His
great
distress.--Inducement
to
publish
this
brief
account
of
his
discoveries.--Conclusion.
Page
235
A
VOYAGE.
CHAPTER
I.
The
Author's
reasons
for
undertaking
a
voyage
of
discovery.--He
builds
a
vessel
for
his
purpose
upon
a
new
plan.--His
departure
from
the
United
States.
In
the
year
1817,
I
projected
a
voyage
of
discovery,
in
the
hope
of
finding
a
passage
to
a
new
and
untried
world.
I
flattered
myself
that
I
should
open
the
way
to
new
fields
for
the
enterprise
of
my
fellow-citizens,
supply
new
sources
of
wealth,
fresh
food
for
curiosity,
and
additional
means
of
enjoyment;
objects
of
vast
importance,
since
the
resources
of
the
known
world
have
been
exhausted
by
research,
its
wealth
monopolized,
its
wonders
of
curiosity
explored,
its
every
thing
investigated
and
understood!
The
state
of
the
civilized
world,
and
the
growing
evidences
of
the
perfectibility
of
the
human
mind,
seemed
to
indicate
the
necessity
of
a
more
extended
sphere
of
action.
Discontent
and
uneasiness
were
every
where
apparent.
The
faculties
of
man
had
begun
to
dwindle
for
want
of
scope,
and
the
happiness
of
society
required
new
and
more
copious
contributions.
I
reasoned
with
myself
as
follows:
A
bountiful
Providence
provides
food
for
the
appetite
which
it
creates;
therefore
the
desire
of
mankind
for
a
greater
world
to
bustle
in,
manifested
by
their
dissatisfaction
with
the
one
which
they
possess,
is
sufficient
evidence
that
the
means
of
gratification
are
provided.
And
who
can
doubt
but
that
this
is
the
time
to
find
the
means
of
satisfying
so
general
a
desire?
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