Others were more like the cane-plant, but taller, bearing large clusters of flowers.
Others, again, had the form of enormous fungi, with short thick stems supporting a wide dome-like roof, from which either rose or drooped long slender branches.

The whole scene behind, before, and beside me far as the eye could reach, was brilliant with innumerable lamps.

The world without a sun was bright and warm as an Italian landscape at noon, but the air less oppressive, the heat softer.

Nor was the scene before me void of signs of habitation.

I could distinguish at a distance, whether on the banks of the lake or rivulet, or half-way upon eminences, embedded amidst the vegetation, buildings that must surely be the homes of men.