[A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille]@TWC D-Link bookA Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder CHAPTER VI 21/25
And now as I emerged from the gloom of the cabin, I found myself once more in the glorious light of day, and saw that we had reached the land.
The galley was hauled up alongside a stone quay, and on the shore there were buildings and walls and trees and people. The chief went ashore at once and I accompanied him.
We walked for some distance along a road with stone walls on either side, from behind which there arose trees that from a distance had looked like palms.
I now found them to be giant ferns, arching overhead with their broad fanlike leaves and branches in dense masses, making the roadway quite dark in the shadow.
Astonished as I was at the sight of these trees, I soon forgot them in a still more astonishing sight, for after going onward about a hundred paces I stopped, and found myself in a wide space where four cross-roads met.
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