# Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, Vol. 76, No. 467, September 1854

Author: Various

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72369

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## Summary

Let us imagine one of our species, at an early period of its history, destitute of any artificial aid to the sense of sight, contemplating the aspect of things around him. He perceives that, somehow or other, he lives upon a Something—apparently a flat surface, of indefinite extent in all directions from the spot where he stands—consisting of land and water, alternately visited with light and darkness, heat and cold; with a regular succession of seasons, somehow or other connected with the growth of vegetables of various kinds, suitable and unsuitable for his purposes, with beautiful flowers and magnificent forests: while the air, water, and earth, teem with insects, birds, fishes, and an...

## Chapters

- [PART I.[13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-76-no-467-september-1854-72369/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.—CHARLEMONT.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-76-no-467-september-1854-72369/chapters/2/index.md)