Litchfield enquirer., 1835-09-10

and forests seemed sn0penaeA iR mid cir. OD the Irecs' wS;eb S..S ere IS sres Srths of gothic arch, and hsing of rich cFison color, it's effect m0sl strange. upon minds uaRccusIOmed to 'as ssscc".'on SI snsn esaaaGSr wn sSGn
 half mile, we were thrilled wiih asionshment to perceive four successive AocIs 0 large winged lures. wholly uaks Gny kind of birds. descead wih sl0w even motion from ihe cliffs ihe western side ARd aligbi upon the plain. They irst noticed by Dr. Herschel, who exclaimed, |" Now, gentlemen, my theories against yonr rOoIs, which you have oilen Iouad a pretiy eveO bes, we have here something worth lo0king at: was confident that Il eyer we toand bsiMgsin human slHpe. waad be ln this Ion- g0de, and that they would be provided ny ther Gre aor with some extraordinary powers of locono:iOn frs exchange fnr my nurnber D. This lens being sOo6 introduced gave us fine hall mile dielance j; and we counted three parties Of these creatures. of twelve nine, and fifteen tn each, walking erect to- wards small wood near Gle hase Of the eastern Ee- cipcee. Certainly they were like huaaR beings. for their wings had now disappeared, and their attitude tn walking both erect and dignified. Having ol- served them this distance Epr some minutes, we n- troduoed lens. Fl z, which brought them to the>ap- parehl proximity o eighty yards: the hig hest clear magnitude possessed until ihe latter end of March,
 when we effected improvement in the gashurners About half of the first party had passed beyond our hut all of ihe others we had perfectly Gis iiac, and deliberate view. They averaged four feel in height, were covered, except on the face, with shon and ena-y copper-colofed hair, and had wings r5mposed of thin membrane, without hair, iyi"g snusy upon their backs OO the top of the shoulders to the ealtes of the legs. The face, which was oi
 yellovvsh flesh color, slight improvement upon that o the large rangouiang, heing more open anu
 intelligent in a expression, and having much great CT expansion of forehead. The mouth, however, was very prominent. though what relieved by thick beard upon the lower jaw, and ny lips far more hu- than those of any species oi the smia genus: \" general symmetry of body and lml's they were inhn iteiy superior to the so much co ina
 but for ,heir long wings, Lieut. Drummond said they oil cockney militia! The hair on the head darker color than that of the ody closely curIed but apparently not wooly, and arranged in two curious Aeir. .circies he temples of the forehead. Their feet could only be they were alternately Iitted in walking {; bu from what we could see oi them n iransieni view, they appeared ih'n and very pro- suheran, at the heel. tg= tE
 "Whisi passing across inc canvas, and whenever we afterwards them, these creatures were eVi. den,ly engaged in conversation their gestic"'a'io" particularly the val Jed ac"" of their hands and arms, appeared impassnDed and emphatic. We hence inferred that they rational beings and al- though perhaps of so high an order as others which discovered the nexs mon,l, on 'he shores of the Bay of Rainh"ws, ibat they we're capa'he n' produring works of art and conirivamce. The next view we obtained of them still more favorabie.- Ii on the borders of liule take; or expanded stream, which lhen for the first time perceived running down the valley to large lake. and having ou its eastern margin small wood. Some of these creatures had crossed this aud were lying like spread eagles on the skirts of the wood. We could then perceive that their wings possessed great exan. RiOn and similar in structure to those of the hat, being Re'Ui transparent membrane expanded |" cur diVelOnS meanS she back hy tue iorsa iuiegnmenIs. But what as tnmished very much the circumstance ot ths membrane being c"n nWed from the shoulders ." the legs. ""ited all the way down" though gradually oe der the command of v"liiinn for those "t the crra tnres whom we bathing in the water, spread them instantly to ihe,r full width, waved them as ducks do theirs shake off the water, aud then as instantly riosed then. again !" compact form. Our further oiservaiion "f the habits of these creanTes
 who were af both led to results SO very re- .L.l.ia ala | he first fore the public in Dr. Hersche's own work, where
 have reason to know they fully and faithfully ,ed, however incretiuI:usy they may ae reces"d'
 The three families then almost simultaneously 1 spread their wings, and were lost in the dark con fines o the canvas, beiore we had time to breathe from our paraiizing asionishment. We. scientfcal- iv, tenomna:ed them ihe Vespertilio- o-h"mo 0r man. bat; and they doSiess innorent and happy crea- sures, notwithstanding some of their amosemenis would but ill cOmpnrt with terrestrial notions of Gecnrunl. The valley itself called the Ruby Co., l loseum, in compliment tO is s'upendons souher" boundary the six mile sweep of red precip'ces two shousand feet high And the night rather morn- ing being far advanced we postponed our tour to Pe iayius, (No. 20. untii another opportunity" 1
 We have, of course. faithfully obeyed Dr. Grants private injunction omit those highly cnln0s pass'- ges !" his correspondence which he wished '" sup press although do clearly perceive the t'rce of the assigned for it. IL is true the omitted paragraphs contain facis which would be wholly n' credible to readers who do not carefully examine !he principles and capacity Of the instrument with which these marveous discoveries have been made but 90 will also nearly n oi those which he has kindly per miiied us ,o publish and for this reason that ave considered the explicit description which we have given of the telescope. important Prel'm- mary. From these, however, and other pr"hib- ted passagea, which will be published by Doctor Hersche with inc certificates of the civil and mil
 ary authorities of the coOny, and of several Eps- copai, Wesleyan, and other minissere, who, in the mouth of March last, were permitted under the st'r- Maiion of temporary secrecy iO visit the observa- tory and become eye-witnesses of the wonders whch they were requested to attest, we are c"nhdenf he forthcoming volumes will be once the most sublime
 in science and the most intense in general interest thn ever issued from the press.
 The night of the 14h displayed the moon in her mcao filtration or fall; but the somewhat humid staic ble to minute inspection than to general survey oi her surface they chiefly devoted 10 the latter purpose. Bot shortly afier midnight the last veil of
 ist dssipaied and the sky being ae lucid as on the former evenings the attention of the astronomers was arrested by the remarkable outlines of the spot marked Gycho No. IS in Rluni's lanar char; and m this region they added io human knowledge which angels might well desire 10 win. Many parts of the following extract will remaiO forever in the chronicles of time.
 "The surface of the moon, when viewed m her mean filtration, even with telescopes Of very limited power, exhibits three OG vast breadth ana c'T cnmerence; independently of seven large collections of water which he de0ominaied seas oi inferior
 waters, discnverahe bv the higher el"sses "f '"s'r"
 neps, and usually called lakes, the number s 60 grea that no attempt has heen made tO coam them i"- deed such task wo"d he almost equal o that oi e""-
 neraiinR the annuar ntains which are t"nnd upon every part of her suriace. whether composed oG land water. The largest of the three oceans "ccup'es considerable portion oc the hemisphere beiweeR the