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Updated: May 11, 2025
But before we reached it we climbed sharp to the right around the end of the mountains, made our way through a low pass, and so found ourselves in a new country entirely. The smooth, undulating green-grass plains were now superseded by lava expanses grown with low bushes.
The conviction seized him that this dull misery of hunger and dirt had settled upon him perpetually there was no use in combating it; and, with an animal-like stoicism, he followed the other away from the road, out of the hollow, to where row upon row of young ornamental trees reached in mathematical perspective to broad sheds, glittering expanses of glass, a huddle of toolhouses, and office.
As I turned from the boat the voices followed me clearly, distinctly, in the exquisite rarefied air. Thin waves of laughter mingled with them from time to time, growing faint behind me, then the distance closed up between us and I heard no more. The steamer had landed about thirty passengers and crew, and they seemed immediately lost in these vast expanses.
This is exactly the case with the Wolds of Yorkshire, and their characteristics are not unlike the chalk hills of Sussex, or those great expanses of windswept downs, where the weathered monoliths of Stonehenge have resisted sun and storm for ages.
But on the generally rainbow-tinted ground suffused with red which perhaps might best be described by calling it a rainbow seen on a background of brilliant crimson there were here and there blotches of black or of lighter or darker grey, caused apparently by vast expanses of cloud, more or less dense.
The invariable connection of the canals at their terminations with the regions called seas, the fact that as the polar caps disappeared the sealike expanses surrounding the polar regions deepened in color, and other similar considerations soon led to the suggestion that there existed on Mars a wonderful system of water circulation, whereby the melting of the polar snows, as summer passed alternately from one hemisphere to the other, served to reenforce the supply of water in the seas, and, through the seas, in the canals traversing the broad expanses of dry land that occupy the equatorial regions of the planet.
Four hours fly past all too quickly, and before we have become accustomed to the level expanses of the sea a strip of land appears to starboard. This is Rügen, the largest island of Germany, lifting its white chalk cliffs steeply from the sea, like surf congealed into stone.
One of these brilliantly white and level expanses, in the midst of the brown and desolate plain, offers an extraordinary spectacle. A large quantity of salt is annually drawn from the salina: and great piles, some hundred tons in weight, were lying ready for exportation. The season for working the salinas forms the harvest of Patagones; for on it the prosperity of the place depends.
But under the transfiguring touch of the moon the unsightly levels changed to plains of infinite mystery expanses of shattered, white granite, as it were, fretted and scrawled with blackness reaches of loneliness older than time. So well is the mask of eternity assumed by the mutable moonlight and the ephemeral ice.
Not a sound in all those peaceful expanses of grass and woods but the drowsy hum of insects; no glimpse of man or beast; nothing to keep up your spirits and make you glad to be alive. And so, at last, in the early part of the afternoon, when I caught sight of a human creature, I felt a most grateful uplift.
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