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SEA-WRACK 



SUSPENDED in the naked air eight thousand 

 feet above New York, I look down and see the 

 city and its inhabitants merged into one. From 

 this height the metropolis is less interesting and 

 hardly more noticeable than many tropical ants' 

 nests which have come under my observation. 

 Circling slcwly earthward, I have watched the 

 city split apart into its canyon streets, and have 

 finally distinguished the caterpillars which I 

 knew were trains, and the black beetles which 

 must be automobiles. Last, and apparently 

 least, were resolved a multitude of tiny specks, 

 weird beings all hats and legs, which were un- 

 doubtedly the makers and owners of these beetles 

 and worms and canyons. 



In many similar bird's-eye-views of the city 

 one phase of activity always amuses and thrills. 

 Circling as low as I dare, bumped and jolted 

 by the surging uprush of invisible spouts of 



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