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area would be considered in one point of view eaual to 10,000 
worlds. 
If we take into consideration the thickness of the rings, 
which are supposed to be from 100 to 250 miles, the area would 
be much increased, as the edges alone of the rings is 228,000,- 
000 of square miles, which is 31 millions of square miles, more 
than the whole area of our globe; large as it appears to us it 1s 
small when compared with Saturn & Co. 
It is found that this giant planet of the sky whirls swiftly 
on its axis, making a complete revolution in 10 hours and 16 
minutes, the rings sweeping around the planet in the same di- 
rection. 
When we approached nearer to the golden ringed planet 
and perceived its glorious features more clearly, when its am- 
ple burnished surface and mighly rolling rings burst on our as- 
tonished gaze, we could not help thinking that here was food 
for the philosopher, the artist, the minister, the poet, the scien- 
tist, the astronomer, and last but not least, the camera fiend. 
The dazzling grandeur of the planet and its mighty rolling 
rings seemed to our astonished gaze as the very pearly gates of 
heaven. <A new life seemed to creep into our veins as we 
neared the golden planet, and all thoughts of our earth and its 
pleasures were forgotten as we gazed spell-bound before the 
mightiest display of beauty, magnificence, grandeur and power 
of the Creator that we had ever dreamed about. It was soul- 
soothing and awe-inspiring as we sailed towards the planet 
through the azure sky, glowing with golden beams of beauty as 
the grand, tremulous and dazzling rings swept majestically 
around the mother planet as on an axle, and whirling swiftly 
around it in 10 and one-half hours, and as the outer ring in cir- 
cumference is about 643,650 miles, you can imagine how fast 
the ring must move in order to complete its rotation around the 
planet, in 10% hours. In figuring it out we found that every 
point of its outer surface moves with a tremendous velocity of 
1,000 miles every minute, or 17 miles during one beat of the 
clock. It seems to us impossible that such a mass of matter 
should move so fast, but yet it is so, and it is probable that this 
