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ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES

faint idea by turning the white of an egg into a glass of water. The materials it was built of were just as soft, and shadowed forth towers, with cupolas and galleries in the form of sails, quite transparent, and swimming in the thin air. Our earth floated above his head, like a large, deep red ball.

HE FOUND HIMSELF ON ONE OF THE COUNTLESS CIRCULAR RANGES OF MOUNTAINS THAT WE SEE IN DR. MADLER'S LARGE MAP OF THE MOON.

He then perceived a number of beings, that were assuredly meant for what we should call