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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

CHAPTER VI
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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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