[65]. Ibid., p. 206.
[66]. More Worlds than One, pp. 206, 207.
[67]. A thirtieth planetoid was discovered by Mr Hind since the publication of the second edition of the Essay.
[68]. Lardner, Museum of Science and Art, vol. i. p. 156.
[69]. Dial., p. 60.
[70]. Ibid., p. 28.
[71]. Museum, &c., vol. i. p. 64.
[72]. P. 271. Her distance from us is 240,000 miles; and our Essayist, by the way, tells us (chap. x. §7) that “a railroad-carriage, at its ordinary rate of travelling, would reach her in a month.” We should not like to travel by the Lunar Express, but should prefer the parliamentary train, and hope, starting from the Hanwell station, to get to the terminus in a couple of years or so. Good Bishop Wilkins intended to be taken up by birds of flight trained for the purpose. When the Duchess of Newcastle asked him where he intended to bait by the way, he answered, “Your Grace is the last person to ask me the question, having built so many castles in the air!”
[73]. Essay, p. 272.
[74]. Pp. 80, 81.