orn, slightly
inclined forward from, the perpendicular"--it is clear that if this goat
was cut down to a single horn, other people were not! I could not but
fully appreciate the exquisite distinction accorded by the writer to the
female of this lunar animal--for she, while deprived of horn and beard,
he explicitly tells us, "had a much larger tail!" When the astronomers
put their fingers on the beard of this "beautiful" little creature (on
the reflector, mind you!) it would skip away in high dudgeon, which,
considering that 240,000 miles intervened, was something to show its
delicacy of feeling.

Next in the procession of discovery, among other animals of less note,
was presented "a quadruped with an amazingly long neck, head like a
sheep, bearing two long spiral horns, white as polished ivory, and
standing in perpendiculars parallel to each other. Its body was like
that of a deer, but its forelegs were most disproportionately long, and
its tail, which was very bushy and of a snowy whiteness, curled high
over its rump and hung two or three feet by its side. Its colors were
bright bay and white, brindled in patches, but of no regular form."
This is probably the animal known to us on earth, and particularly along
the Mississippi River, as the "guyascutus," to which I may particularly
refer in a future article.

But all these beings faded into insignificance compared with the first
sight of the genuine Lunatics, or men in the moon, "four feet high,
covered, except in the face, with short, glossy, copper-colored hair,"
and "with wings composed of a thin membrane, without hair, lying snugly
upon their backs from the top of their shoulders to the calves of their
legs," "with faces of a yellowish flesh-color--a slight improvement on
the large ourang-outang." Complimentary for the Lunatics! But, says the
chronicler, Lieutenant Drummond declared that "but for their long wings,
they would look as well on a parade-ground as some of the cockney
militia!" A little rough, my friend the reader will exclaim, for the
aforesaid militia.

Of course, it is impossible, in a sketch like the present, to do more
than give a glimpse of this rare combination of astronomical realities
and the vagaries of mere fancy, and I must omit the Golden-fringed
Mountains, the Vale of the Triads, with their splendid triangular
temples, etc., but I positively cannot pass by the glowing mention of
the inhabitants of this wonderful valley--a superior race of