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"They imagine themselves to be Atlas, each one with the world upon his shoulders, which must certainly fall, if they are not there to uphold it. I, however, take the liberty of judging that if they were all to be blown to atoms, nobody would be the worse for their disappearance. What has come of your writings?
I wish I could find it, but the confusion of time has scattered and mixed these early papers. A map by Ptolemy would bear as much resemblance to the same country in a modern atlas as mine to the present state of that locality. It is all gone rubbed out. The names against the whole of those houses have been altered, one only excepted, and changes have taken place there. Nothing remains.
Jack, whose joy at arriving at a place is only equalled by her joy in leaving it. "Penelope, hand me my letters, please; if you were not my guest I should say I had never witnessed such an appetite. Tommy, what news from father? Atlas, how can you drink three cups of British coffee? Oh-h-h, how more than lucky, how heavenly, how providential! Egeria is coming!"
The Bay of Bougie especially, surrounded as it is by lofty mountains, part of the Atlas range, is extremely picturesque. As the steamers, however, only remain a few hours at each of the stopping-places, there is scarcely time fully to enjoy the varied and charming views.
I rose, and with the help of such precise instructions could not fail to find the required atlas. My uncle opened it and said: "Here is one of the best maps of Iceland, that of Handersen, and I believe this will solve the worst of our difficulties." I bent over the map.
While Tingis lay at the junction of the two seas, on the northern African coast, about five miles east of Cape Spartel, Lixus was situated on the open Atlantic, forty miles to the south of that cape, on the West African coast, looking westward towards the ocean. The streams from Atlas here collect into a considerable river, known now as the Wady-el-Khous, and anciently as the Lixus.
"I sent no message to the Doctor Sahib to-day, lest Koj Burton should remain to inquire into it. Now, brothers, follow me to the Temple of Atlas and we will take the fifty years' offerings to the inner Temple of Hydas. By giving liberal offerings to the gods they bless us and we get much wealth. Come, it is the time."
Colney was heard to say: 'No doubt: the German is the race the least mixed in Europe: it might challenge aboriginals for that. Oddly, it has invented the Cyclopaedia for knowledge, the sausage for nutrition! How would you explain it? Dr. Schlesien replied with an Atlas shrug under fleabite to the insensately infantile interrogation. He in turn was presently heard.
"Your uncle is as sane as anybody he just doesn't remember anything that happened from the time he fell down the steps and slipped that atlas vertebra a little bit on one side." Again Pros Passmore's fingers sought the back of his collar. "Looks like somebody has been tryin' to wring my neck, same as a chicken's," he said meditatively.
On the border of the creek I found some gold-bearing rock, and while the Tuan Hakim was engaged in securing some superb specimens of the great atlas moth, I sat down and crushed some fragments of it, and obtained enough gold to satisfy me that the rock would run four ounces to the ton. It was a beautiful night.
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