By pulling this or that handle I regulate how far it shall go, and it travels, as you have seen, with amazing speed.

The effect of my hot-houses is heightened by the roofs being invariably concealed by skies, which are really very admirably painted, and by the introduction of birds and other creatures, which seem to flourish quite as well in artificial as in natural heat.
This explains the South American effect." "But not the Egyptian." "No.

It is certainly rather clever.

I had the best man in France, at least the best at those large effects, to paint in that circular background.

You understand, the palms, cacti, obelisk, and so on, are perfectly genuine, and so is the sand for fifty yards or so, and I defy the keenest-eyed man in England to tell where the deception commences.
It is the familiar and perhaps rather meretricious effect of a circular panorama, but carried out in the most complete manner.