An iron bridge thrown across the water and shining with lights, stretched between two piers so far apart that Professor Obnubile imagined he was sailing on the seas of Saturn and that he saw the marvellous ring which girds the planet of the Old Man.

And this immense conduit bore upon it more than a quarter of the wealth of the world.

The learned Penguin, having disembarked, was waited on by automatons in a hotel forty-eight stories high.

Then he took the great railway that led to Gigantopolis, the capital of New Atlantis.

In the train there were restaurants, gaming-rooms, athletic arenas, telegraphic, commercial, and financial offices, a Protestant Church, and the printing-office of a great newspaper, which latter the doctor was unable to read, as he did not know the language of the New Atlantans.