the storm centre, frequently moved with rapidity in
the form of foam. Yet, notwithstanding this, the waves were never as
large as those to which they were accustomed on earth. This they
accounted for very easily by the fact that, while water weighed 2.55
times as much as on earth, the pressure of air was but little more than
half as much again, and consequently its effect on all but the very
surface of the heavy liquid was comparatively slight.

"Gravity is a useful factor here," observed Cortlandt, as they made a
note of this; "for, in addition to giving immunity from waves, it is
most effective in checking the elevation of high mountains or
table-lands in the high latitudes, which we shall doubtless find
sufficiently cool, or even cold, while in tropical regions, which might
otherwise be too hot, it interferes with them least, on account of
being partly neutralized by the rapid rotation with which all four of
the major planets are blessed."

At sunrise the following morning they saw they were approaching another
great arm of the sea. It was over a thousand miles wide at its mouth,
and, had not the photographs showed the contrary, they would have
thought the Callisto had reached the northern end of the continent. It
extended into the land fifteen thousand miles, and, on account of the
shape of its mouth, they called it Funnel Bay. Rising to a height,
they flew across, and came to a great table-land peninsula, with a
chain of mountains on either side. The southern range was something
over, and the northern something less than, five thousand feet in
height, while the table-land between sloped almost imperceptibly
towards the middle, in which, as they expected, they found a river
compared to which the Mississippi or the Amazon would be but a brook.
In honour of the President of the Terrestrial Axis Straightening
Company, they called this great projection, which averaged about four
thousand miles across by twelve thousand miles long, Bearwarden
Peninsula. They already noticed a change in climate; the ferns and
palms became fewer, and were succeeded by pines, while the air was also
a good deal cooler, which was easily accounted for by their
altitude--though even at that height it was considerably denser than at
sea-level on earth--and by the fact that they were already near
latitude thirty.

The exposed points on the plateau, as also the summits of the first
mountains they had seen before alighting, were devoid o