Trip 4469 of 5250 collection book48

We must here make one important remark with regard to the map by which they were taking observations.book31 The travelers discussed the origin of these strange rays but they could not determinebook74 their nature any more than terrestrial observers. Toward the north on the contrary till where it was bounded by the Sea of Storms it resembled a liquid surface agitated by a storm of which the hills and hollows formed a succession of waves suddenly congealed.The Sea of Fruitfulness The Sea of Crises then the Sea of Vapors whose dimensions are perhaps a little too confined and lastly that vast Sea of Tranquillity in which every false passion every useless dream every unsatisfied desire is at length absorbed and whose waves emerge peacefully into the Lake of Death What a strange succession of names What a singular division of the moons two hemispheres joined to one another like man and woman and forming that sphere of life carried into space And was not the fantastic Michel right in thus interpreting the fancies of the ancient astronomers But while his imagination thus roved over the seas his grave companions were considering things more geographically.... read all

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