"within" believe that "The Smoky God" is the throne
of their Jehovah, and is stationary. The effect of night and day is,
therefore, produced by the earth's daily rotation.

I have since discovered that the language of the people of the Inner
World is much like the Sanskrit.

After we had given an account of ourselves to the emissaries from the
central seat of government of the inner continent, and my father had, in
his crude way, drawn maps, at their request, of the "outside" surface of
the earth, showing the divisions of land and water, and giving the name
of each of the continents, large islands and the oceans, we were taken
overland to the city of "Eden," in a conveyance different from anything
we have in Europe or America. This vehicle was doubtless some electrical
contrivance. It was noiseless, and ran on a single iron rail in perfect
balance. The trip was made at a very high rate of speed. We were carried
up hills and down dales, across valleys and again along the sides of
steep mountains, without any apparent attempt having been made to level
the earth as we do for railroad tracks. The car seats were huge yet
comfortable affairs, and very high above the floor of the car. On the
top of each car were high geared fly wheels lying on their sides, which
were so automatically adjusted that, as the speed of the car increased,
the high speed of these fly wheels geometrically increased. Jules Galdea
explained to us that these revolving fan-like wheels on top of the cars
destroyed atmospheric pressure, or what is generally understood by
the term gravitation, and with this force thus destroyed or rendered
nugatory the car is as safe from falling to one side or the other from
the single rail track as if it were in a vacuum; the fly wheels in
their rapid revolutions destroying effectually the so-called power of
gravitation, or the force of atmospheric pressure or whatever potent
influence it may be that causes all unsupported things to fall downward
to the earth's surface or to the nearest point of resistance.

The surprise of my father and myself was indescribable when, amid the
regal magnificence of a spacious hall, we were finally brought before
the Great High Priest, ruler over all the land. He was richly robed,
and much taller than those about him, and could not have been less than
fourteen or fifteen feet in height. The immense room in which we were
received seemed finished in solid slabs of gold thickly studded with