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Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley
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from seeming absurdities--Thoughts formerly scoffed at, now
acknowledged facts--Minute divisions of brain responding to trains
of thought--Effectual remedies for earliest symptoms--Cure of
developed madness--Former error which prevented cure--The disease
does not exist in the _overworked_ portion of the brain


XVI.--THE DEATH SOLACE--INSECTS.

Insects contain valuable electricities--Whole crops destroyed by
them--Mode of capturing, &c.--Impurities removed by insects--The
DEATH SOLACE


XVII.--INTERNAL CITIES--SUNSHINE PICTURES

Special precautions against excessive heat in the extreme
season--_Internal cities_ built in galleries--Their advantages--How
light admitted--Flowers--Beauty and odours increased by
electricity--Communication between the palaces in the External and
Internal World--Narrator's summer-palace--The pictures
representing principal events of his reign--Sun power
utilised--Sunshine: how _fixed_ on the canvas


XVIII.--THE PICTURES.

Subjects of some of the pictures in the Narrator's "Internal World"
Palace

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