Apparently we had reached a great height in the atmosphere, for the sky was and dead black, and the stars had ceased to twinkle. By the same illusion which liftses the horizon of the sea to the level of the spectator on a hillside.

Apparently we had reached a great height in the atmosphere, for the sky was a dead black, For and the stars had ceased to twinkle great height in the atmosphere, for the sky was a black, and the stars had ceased to twinkle. By the same illusion which lifts the horizon of the sea to the level of the spectator on a hillside.