Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah

titude to Him who sent His a

hose that executed. He created the fire that married th

, and w

d walls are more than a hundred feet in thickness, is carried up from the lower land nearest to t

e effect of distance. The height of the tower is the same as its circumference at the base. Our ordinary powers of vision generally exceed yours, and th

ic instruments, and for experiments connected with science. The different strata and incidents of the atmosphere at various elevations are there studied with peculiar advantage, as there are numerous

materials and electricities used, as well as provisions and necessaries, being raised to these stages by electric power. The principal material used is the hardest and most dura

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with our electrical and mechanical levers, many expedie

ened temporarily, so that their specific gravity, called by us the "tenacious electricity," and its tendency to seek the sympathetic e

nature by chemical combination, the action of fire, and other expedients, the bodies often resuming their specific gravity and original form. The means

ficers employed, and all the industry and energy exerted in obedience to my will, nine of

urs. The year is marked by a peculiar appearanc

ravine[1] metal, inlaid with large transparent stones of varied colours. The ravine metal-a metal prized beyond gold-possesses beautiful veins of colour, which change with

g found in the great ravine, th

al, ornamented with transparent stones. The sun's rays playing on these stones, and particularly on a l

nd with the light of our world stand out prominently from the iron-marble, sufficiently large to be plainly seen at great distances from

t the journey by our external roads, by reason of the circuits to be taken, and the ascents and descents would, even to descend, occupy two days on a fleet horse. The passage through the Tower, how

lculation, for the weight of the descending body would other

med to live in the Lower city have a disposition to spring from their feet when first arriving in the Upper city. I recollect a la

t used in your world, but is different in construction and mode of working. What is written at one station is reproduced in its exact size and form at another. Ev

exist at different distances in layers, and which as they are developed and become heavier have a tendency to fall into lower regions of the atmosphere, till they awaken into lif

side the more advanced and heaviest tend to settle in the lower regions of the air

and at different times and altitudes. Each portion of air being secured in a separate glass c

dle and Lower cities of Montalluyah, is an object of inconceivable grandeur

have been high, and the sky has been clear, I have seen from a distance parts of the huge Mountain Supporter seemingly broken into vertical lines towards the middle and lower parts in a way that,

he one firm, stately, and magnificent in its solidity and repose, the other vapoury and grand in its gracefulness and movement; both inconceivably beautiful; the Cataract, a work of all-powerful Providence, whose wise purposes no one can scan in their entirety; the