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ring and the opposite parts of our own like vast arches in the 
heavens ,and although only 2,800 miles intervene between them, 
that space may be as impassable as is the space which inter- 
venes between us and the moon. 
If the two rings have a rotation around Saturn in different 
periods of time, as is most probable, it will add a considerable 
variety to the scenery exhibited by the different objects which 
will successively appear in the course of the rotation. 
As we were rapidly nearing the planet and gazing in won- 
der and delight at its growing grandeur and magnificence, with 
its giant rings now appearing to reach across the whole heavens 
we could not help exclaiming: How beautiful the Saturn sky, 
whose starry rings and moons now spread amid the purple 
depths of eve, their glories o’er my head; but now that know- 
ledge great and high, is kindled in man’s soul, we know thee, 
Saturn, but a more glorious part of a more glorious whole. 
Then the thought struck us, Oh! for one hour of quiet de- 
light to sit upon the highest peak of the outer ring of Saturn, 
as on a throne, and muse on the lovely surrounding scenes of 
grandeur and sublimity, which no picture even seen on earth 
or in the heavens surrounding the earth, could bear any com- 
parison to. 
Our intention then was to land on the outer ring which — 
seemed at that distance to be of the same solid material as the 
planet itself, and noted that there were actually three rings, one 
inside of the other on the same plane, and all whirling rapidly 
around the planet. 
We had not proceeded, however, much further on, when 
all of a sudden a voice seemed to come from the heavens, ex- 
claiming in good English: “Halt; go no further. What 
seek ye, and whence come ye?” Our car was instantly stop- 
ped, and our worthy president, being so conversant with the 
heavens, was not in the slightest degree afraid, so answered 
the voice by saying, “We came from that little planet called 
the Earth, which is shining away in the distance as a little star 
of the ninth magnitude, just barely visible, and we want to 
know something more about the glorious world of Saturn and 
