All these foolish and unreasonable ideas pursued me. And in this condition of mind, over-excited by the succession of wonders continually passing befo...

There is reason to suppose that on Mars they may have progressed upon them with some facility. The internal anatomy, I may remark here, as dissection ...

In a little time, I and my family and friends came to a right understanding: but my wife protested “I should never go to sea any more;” although my ev...

In the smaller pocket on the right side, were several round flat pieces of white and red metal, of different bulk; some of the white, which seemed to ...

My uncle was careful to note every hour the indications of the compass, of the manometer, and of the thermometer, all which he afterwards published in...

Their tallest trees are about seven feet high: I mean some of those in the great royal park, the tops whereof I could but just reach with my fist clen...

All day my thoughts were bent upon these speculations, and my imagination scarcely regained a degree of calmness and power of reflection until after a...

But that which served as steps under our feet became in other places stalactites. The lava, very porous in certain places, took the form of little rou...