You can read any day of thousand league "hops" made by' aeroplanes from one part of the world to another, Even in China which probably invented aeroplanes in the year one and then forgot about them, as may. be discovered any moment by: some admiring archaeologist, it is possible to post a letter in Peking and have it delivered in Shanghai within a few comparatively short hours. Up above the world so high, it is possible to look down in comfort upon the cultivated Yangtze valley] with its tracing of canals, and Jan hour or so later, glance over: the side of the plane and see the terraced fields of the billy north; and after that again, inspect from the point of view of the bird, the rugged, scarred mountains' which" are the southern wall of the northern plains. Travelling in this way is s0 easy that to read of some of the exploits of early adventurers is like reading a fairy led to look after her case, $320) dollars as a fee and $110 for put. ting up her bail,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.