r my departure, and give to the whole island their first
notions of _terrestrial_ geography and history. Finally, I decided upon
a night in which I would depart, and at bed-time bade the family good
by. At midnight I filled my pockets and sundry satchels with my
note-books, specimens of dried plants, insects, fragments of minerals,
etc., and, hanging these satchels on my arms, called on Copernicus to
fulfil his promise. Instantly all things disappeared again from my view;
I was floating with my satchels in mid-ether, and fell into a trance.
When I awaked, I was in my father's house in New York. How long the
passage required, I have no means of determining.

The present brief sketch of my life upon the planet Mars is designed
partly to call attention to the volumes which I am preparing, in
conjunction with more learned and more scientific _collaborateurs_, for
immediate publication by the Smithsonian Institution, and partly for the
gratification of readers who may never see those ponderous quartos.

I will only add, that, since my return to Earth, I have never been able
to obtain any information either from Copernicus or from any other of
the illustrious dead, except through the pages of their printed works.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] The strangeness of my adventures will be so apt to breed incredulity
among those unacquainted with my character, that I add some certificates
from the highest names known to science.

"New York, June 13, 1865.--Three plants, submitted to me by Mr.
George Snyder for examination, prove to be totally unlike any
botanical family hitherto known or described in any books to
which I have access.

"ROBERT BROWN, _Prof. Bott. Col., Coll. N. Y._"

"New York, June 15, 1865.--Mr. George Snyder. Dear Sir: Your
mineral gives, in the spectroscope, three elegant red bands and
one blue band; and certainly contains a new metal hitherto
unknown to chemistry.

"R. BUNSEN, _Prof. Chem., N. Y. Free Acad._"

"Cambridge, Mass., June, 18, 1863.--Mr. George Snyder has
placed in my hands three insects, belonging to three new
families of Orthoptera, differing widely from all previously
known.

"KIRBY SPENCE, _Assist. Ent., Mus. Comp. Zoeol._"

[B] These chords are those of E, A, B, E, whence the creatures might be
called _Eabes_.

MADAM WALDOBOROUGH'S CARRIAGE.

On a bright particular afternoon, in the month of November, 1855, I m