They walked along them for a great distance, but found no end and no break in them.

They could arrive at no decision.

There was nothing in the records of science that mentioned anything of this kind.

But at last the bald and venerable geographer, Professor Mud Turtle, a person who, born poor, and of a drudging low family, had, by his own native force raised himself to the headship of the geographers of his generation, said: "'My friends, we have indeed made a discovery here.

We have found in a palpable, compact, and imperishable state what the wisest of our fathers always regarded as a mere thing of the imagination.