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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
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CHAPTER
IX.
The
Author
arrives
at
the
seat
of
government.--Description
of
the
Auditory.--Symzonian
manner
of
assembling
for
devotion
and
public
business.--Etiquette
of
the
Symzonian
Court.--He
is
admitted
to
an
audience
by
the
Best
Man.--Account
of
the
interview,
and
of
his
unfortunate
efforts
to
exalt
the
character
of
the
externals,
by
describing
some
of
their
splendid
follies.
We
were
three
days
in
passing
from
the
ship
to
the
place
of
assembly.
Surui
uniformly
ordered
a
halt,
when
the
light
was
so
faint
as
not
to
permit
me
to
have
a
distinct
view
of
the
country.
Wherever
we
stopped,
we
were
visited
by
great
numbers
of
people,
many
of
whom,
to
my
extreme
mortification,
looked
upon
me
with
evident
pity,
if
not
with
disgust.
Yet
they
were
very
kind,
and
brought
a
profusion
of
the
choicest
fruits,
vegetables,
milk,
and
honey,
and
great
quantities
of
beautiful
flowers.--The
face
of
the
country
became
more
and
more
beautiful
as
we
approached
the
place
of
assemblage,
which
is
in
the
most
perfect
part
of
this
delightful
region.
The
most
elegant
specimens
of
ornamental
gardening
on
the
external
world,
give
but
a
faint
idea
of
the
appearance
of
this
whole
district.
The
principal
object
that
attracted
my
notice
on
arriving
at
the
seat
of
government,
was
the
Auditory,
which
towered
above
all
surrounding
objects,
and
struck
me
with
awe
and
admiration.
I
could
not
conceive
how
so
stupendous
an
edifice
could
have
been
reared
by
such
a
people.
I
had
indeed
observed,
that
notwithstanding
their
inferiority
in
size,
they
were
much
stronger,
and
more
active
than
the
Externals.
The
tallest
men
were
about
five
feet
high,
but
they
leaped
twenty
or
thirty
feet
at
a
bound
without
much
apparent
exertion,
and
easily
lifted
burthens
which
three
of
our
men
would
find
it
difficult
to
move;
still
the
vast
fabric
before
me
appeared
out
of
all
proportion
to
the
ability
even
of
mortals
as
highly
gifted
as
these.
It
was
a
single
dome
of
one
arch,
supported
by
a
peristyle
of
huge
columns,
and
covering
at
least
eight
acres
of
ground.
The
extreme
elevation
of
the
centre
was
seven
hundred
and
fifty
feet.
The
whole
was
formed
of
stone,
in
massy
blocks,
cemented
with
a
paste
of
the
same
material,
so
as
to
appear
to
be
all
of
one
solid
piece.
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