Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: water; and thus making themselves lighter than the element, they presently rise to the top and sail again. I do not find that any body has been so ingenious yet, as to contrive a way of sinking a ship to the bottom of the sea, and then bringing it up again; though I have seen a man go down in what is called a diving-bell, and remain under water for a quarter of an hour; and have heard of a party of ladies and gentlemen who descended into the sea in the same way, and sung glees and catches, to the fishes below ! Do you not think that the The newspapers inform us of this feat being recently performed, by Miss Stephens, and a party of her friends. fishes must have wondered what musical companions were come to live among them ? As to men and women flying about in balloons among the clouds, you know that is so common now, that you must not be at all surprised to see me riding in the air towards London. But this flying and swimming is rather a dangerous matter, and it has quite run away with me, you see. In my next letter I must go back to the little nautilus. Now farewell! 1- chapter{Section 4LETTER II. My DEAR JANE, Men learnt what was really useful of the Nautilus, when it taught them to guide their vessels so that they could venture into unknown seas. Then they learned more of the wonderful works of God than they ever knew before: then (hey found in what a number of different ways his power and goodness are displayed. But many, many years passed away, before they ventured to sail upon those vast oceans which are now explored by so many ships. TheMediterranean Sea was for a long time the only scene of their maritime undertakings. If you consider a little, you will not be surprised at this; for in the times of which I am speaking, almost all the civilized people o…