So,— quite early the next morning there they both are, about to go visit one of the local Mounds1 with the possibly unstable3 Capt. Shelby as their Guide,— the frost along the Tent-Rigging bleach'd in the last of the Moon,— their breaths upon the Air remaining white for longer than 'twould seem they ought. Mason and Dixon step out of the Perimeter4, into the Wild, now as entirely5 subject to the Captain's notions of Grace as any Romans, lur'd by promises of forbidden Knowledge, in the Care of an inscrutable Druid. "Come along," cries the Captain jovially9. "We need to be there just at Sunrise."
"Folly," Mason mutters.
"Aye," Dixon replies, "you'd've pre-ferr'd the Moonlight, I guess, and an Owl8 or two." Down by the creek10 they fall in with the Path Shelby means to follow,— the North-Mountain rears above them, soon to catch the first light at its crest11. Trees fill with whistling. Squadrons of cloud go rushing in the sky. The breeze has a cold edge. Dead leaves are everywhere. Soon all odor of woodsmoke has faded behind them. That of Ripeness, come and gone, enfolds them. And then something else.
"There's a new barrel-mill in the neighborhood,— smell it?" They are coming near the bank of a creek. Shelby, Eyebrows12 wrinkling together, takes hold of his Shot-Bag and begins to toss it lightly in his Hand. He seems eager to begin firing at any target that may present itself.
"Grist-millers," he declares, "discover there is more money in grind?ing out cheap barrels for rifles for the Savages13. Philadelphia money. Here, up this way."
Mist is gather'd in the hollows, thick and cohering14, blinding whilst carrying to each the Breaths and Mutterings of the others. Ev'rywhere between these white Episodes, the clarity of the Dawn slowly, piercingly, emerges. "This Ridge15, another Valley," the Captain exhorts16 them, "and we are there." Over the crest and down to ford17 and then follow the creek through a gap in the hills to another Stream, where, in the angle of Con18?fluence, its tip just catching19 the first rays of the Sun, stands Capt. Shelby's "Mound2."
"Eeh!" cries Dixon. "Why, 'tis a great Cone20!"
"Reg'lar as Silbury Hill," Capt. Shelby's head at an admiring angle.
Mason, slow to enthusiasm, sniffs21 the air. "No fermented22 Maize23 fumes24 about, but then, 'tis Still, so to speak, early in the Day."
"My Sacred Word," the Welshman rolling his eyes Heavenward, pro6?ducing, however, an effect more of Madness than of Piety25. "Come, Boys. Come." They are boys. They approach the giant Solid, alone upon its Promontory26, as light slowly envelopes it, dyeing it a cold, crystalline Rose. Mason's first question, though he refrains from asking it aloud, is, Might it be under invisible Guard,— and how zealous27 are they? Shelby, watching his face, knows gleefully enough his Apprehensions29.
"How do the Indians here about fancy Spectators like huz?" Dixon asks.
"They laugh. They but appear a solemn People,— worshiping Laugh?ter, rather, as a serious, indeed holy, Force in Nature, never to be invok'd idly. This Mound is something they understand perfectly30,— that white people do not, and show no signs of ever doing so, is a source of deep Amusement for them."
"Is there a way inside?"
"There shouldn't be, but there is." The Welshman's eyes tighten31. "It was broken into years ago, perhaps by some larcenous33 Fool who had it confus'd with a Pyramid. His disappointment was the only good to come of it, for he found nothing,— no ancient corpses34, nor even Copper35 bracelets36 or Tobacco-Pipes, for Indians never built it."
"Eeh!" cries Dixon, who's been peering into the opening. "D'yese see this, how these Layers are set in?— Mason! That Device Mr. Franklin
show'd us,— his Leyden Jar! Remember thee all that Fancy Layering inside it...?"
"Yes," impatiently, "but those were Gold-leaf, Silver foil, Glass,— Philosophickal Materials," a quick glance toward Shelby, "whilst these,— " having a Squint37, " - seem but different kinds of Refuse,— dirt...ashes...crush'd seashells...not likely to be an ancient Leyden Battery, Dixon, if that's what you're thinking."
"A Marvel38 no one taught you this, Mr. Mason, for there is lengthy39 Knowledge of such things,— according to which, alternating Layers of dif?ferent Substances are ever a Sign of the intention to Accumulate Force,— not necessarily Electrical, neither,— perhaps, Captain, these Substances Mr. Mason so disrespects may yet be suited to Forces more Tellurick in nature, more attun'd, that is, to Death and the slower Phenomena40."
Mason is shaking his head, having no idea how to control Ranting42 like this, genial43 though it be. He's long known that Leadership is not his best Quality. Captain Shelby is staring at them both, with apprehension28 more than curiosity, for he has seen the Deep Woods and its mysteries quite derange44 more than one visitor from the Sea-coast and beyond. Deciding to place his faith in Reason, "Ye'll note, how the Sun-light has been creeping down the Cone. A Progressive warming of the Structure. The Diameters of each infinitesimal Ring, at each moment, being the crucial values. Did either of you bring a Compass?"
"Here's one...eeh!" Dixon, regarding his Needle, feels himself begin to drift somewhere else, off at an angle to the serial45 curve of his Life— Mason peers over his shoulder,— "Hum!" right into Dixon's Ear.
"Aagghh!" leaping away. "Mason, don't do that.— " He struggles to refocus,— in fact, to remember where he is. The Needle is swinging wildly and without pause, rocking about like a Weather-Vane in a storm, Dixon pretending to gaze at it knowingly.
Mason a-squint, "— Well, thank you for allowing us to witness your Experience, aye very helpful indeed—"
Shelby would have preferr'd the slow chatter46 of three Men, in the early morning, with nought47 more to discuss than the Day ahead. "This Struc?ture happens to be quite in the projected path of your Line," he informs them, " - When at length your Visto is arriv'd here, the Mound will become active, as an important staging-house, for.. .whatever it may be,”
with an attempt at a Chuckle48, tho' it comes out too loud, and imperfectly controll'd. "To quote Mr. Tox, in his famous Pennsylvaniad,—
'A "Force Intensifier," as 'tis styl'd,
A geomantic Engine in the Wild,
Whose Task is sending on what comes along,
As brisk as e'er, and sev'ral Times as strong.'
- Welsh in origin, it goes without saying."
"How so? Welsh Indians?"
"Oh! Absolutely. Only a few days west and south of here— 'Twas in The Turkish Spy but a few years since...?" The Cymry, Capt. Shelby explains, having first come to Britain from far to the East,— some say Babylon, some Nineveh,— their Fate ever to be Westering,— America but one of their dwelling-places, the Ocean nearly irrelevant49. "Hugh Crawfford believes they are the Tuscaroras. Come along."
He leads them uphill again, to what seems the Ruin of a Wall, encir?cling part of the hill-top,— where he stoops and brushes away some Dirt. Here, inscrib'd in a roughly dress'd Stone, they see a Line of brief Strokes, some pointing up, some down, some both ways. "These are all over the British Isles,— 'tis a Writing call'd Ogham, invented by Hu Gadarn the Mighty51, who led the first Cymrick Settlers into Britain. As ye'll note, 'tis useful for those who must move on quickly, yet do wish to scribble52 down something to commemorate53 their presence."
"What does it say?"
"Well...as nearly as I can make out,— 'Astronomers54 Beware. Survey?ors too. This means you.' Of course I haven't read any of this for Cen?turies...yet 'tis indisputably Old Welsh."
"As you describe this Line," opines the Professor, back at Camp, "— the Marker Stones set at regular intervals,— a cascaded56 Array of Units each capable of producing a Force,— I do suspect we have the same structure as a Leyden Battery,— and, need I add, of a Torpedo57." "With the head aim'd close by New Castle?”
"Or the other way, were the Cascade55 reversible,— the emitted Blast, being as easily directed Westward58 as East? Either direction, 'twould be a Pip of a Weapon, even with your Marker Stones placed no further than Sideling Hill."
"Why fire at Sideling Hill?" Dixon all innocence59.
"Not at the Hill," chuckles60 Capt. Shelby, "— at what's coming over the Hill."
"Pontiack? The French?"
"Too late for them. One day, one of you'll risk a Peep over the Ridge-line, and then you'll see."
"More mountains," says Mason.
"Exactly,— Mountains such as these, which may be liv'd among the
year 'round. Therein ever rocks the cradle of Rebellion. Sooner or later,
something up here will grow hungry or hopeless enough to want to
descend61 to the plain, to stoop like Hawks62 upon rich Chesapeake, aye the
Metropolis63 itself— If the Black Boys so easily had their way with the
British Regulars at Shippensburg, who knows what Wonders are yet pos?
sible out here, over the North-Mountain "
Yet removing Trees to create a pair of perfectly straight Edges, is to invite Sha, as Captain Zhang, ever eager upon the Topick of the Line and its Visible expression upon the Landscape, with its star-dictated indif?ference to the true inner shape, or Dragon, of the Land, will be happy to indicate to them.
"They came from the Sky, they prepar'd to emplace these Webs of right lines upon the Earth, then without explanation they went away again. Their work is being continued by the Jesuits, inscribers of Merid?ians, whether in blind obedience64 to some ancient Coercion65, long expir'd, or in witting Complicity with it, who can say?" Captain Zhang can of course imagine Jesuits guilty of anything, including conspiring66 with Extra-terrestrial Visitors, to mark the living Planet with certain Signs, for motives67 of their own, motives they do not discuss, especially not with their Jesuit hirelings.
"Hearken, Gentlemen,— Someone wants your Visto. Not your Line, nor the Boundary it defines. Those are but a Pretext68 for the actual clear'd straight Track. In the Domain69 of very slow Undulations we're discussing
here, Wood is as much an Element as Air or Water,— living Trees in par50?ticular producing a Force that might interfere70 in too costly71 a way with whatever is to be sent up and down this Line.
"Earth, withal, is a Body, like our own, with its network of Points, dis-pos'd along its Meridians,— much as our medicine in China has identi?fied, upon the Human body, a like set of Lines invisible, upon which, beadwise, are strung Points, where the Flow of Chee may be beneficially strengthen'd by insertions of Gold Needles. So, this arrangement of Oolite Shafts72, at least partly inserted into the Earth,— you see, it is suggestive."
"Do we want to hear this?" Capt. Shelby inquires, plaintively73.
"Hold, 'twill be legal evidence of his insanity74, allow him to— ah, yes then Captain you were saying and how fascinating that you believe the Planet Earth to be a.. .living Creature? Hum?"
"Exactly as the creatures Microscopic75 upon your skin believe you to be a Planet. They may be arguing even now about whether or not you are a form of Life. Each time you step into a Tub, there comes upon them another universal Flood, with its Animalcular Noah, and another Re-inhabiting, another Chain of Generations, to them how timeless, till the next Wash."
"Some reason that Bottle isn't moving more briskly?" Dixon wishes to know. "Thankye,— now Mason, don't ta'e the Hoomp, but the Captain's right,- "
" 'Right'?"
"Consider. We've an outer and an inner surface, haven't we, which mathematickally, 'tis easy, using Fluxions, to warp76 and smooth, by small, continuous changes, into a Toroid, with openings at either end, leading to—
"Hold," cries Mason, "— An Inner Surface? Are you by chance seek?ing analogy between the Human Body and the planet Earth? The Earth has no inner Surface, Dixon."
"Have you been to its End, to see?"
"Tho' I come from pret-ty far North," Stig puts in, "yet there's a lot more North, North of even that,— out of which, now and then, a Sail will appear upon the Horizon, a Snow-craft approach, all the day long, and at Evening at last put in at our little Village,— Ev'ryone crowds into the Inn, by the light of bear-fat Candles, to drink Cloud-berry Flip77, and lis-
ten to the Visitor's tales of a great dark Cavity up there, mirror'd over?head, as by a Water-sky,— Funnel-shap'd, leading inside the Earth...to another World."
"Grant me Patience 0 Lord," Mason with a bleak78 Expression, holding his head. "When 'tis not the Eleven Days missing from the New Style, or the Cock Lane Ghost, yet abides79 the Hollow Earth, as a proven Lure80 and Sanctuary81 to all, that too lightly bestow82 their Faith."
"Why," snorts Dixon, "half of all the Philosophers in Durham are Hollow-Earthers."
"That accounts for Emerson," hisses83 Mason. "Who was the other, again?"
"Lud Oafery," glowers84 Dixon, "marvelous chap, and he ever spoke85 highly of thee,—
"Dixon,— pray you. Think. If Newton's figure is correct,— if the den7?sity of the Earth, on average, is between five and six times that of water, then the shell of this Hollow Earth of yours, be it hundreds of miles thick, would have to possess some quite impossibly high density86 to make up for the empty interior,— at least, say, twelve times that of water, maybe more. Where is the evidence of this? Solid Rock is but two and a half times as dense87 as water. What more could be down there?"
"Precisely88 what the Royal Society would wish to know."
"You've not, ehm that is, mention'd this to,— " pausing to consider how not to give offense89.
"Some believ'd me, some didn't. Some took me for a Jes-uit Agent, angling for a Northern Expedition of some kind. Mr. Birch, bless him, immediately went off to make converts. Others asked questions tha'd have to term more or less rude...? My mining background, and so forth90...? A Geordie descends91 into the Earth just once, and right away everyone starts to get ideas." Dixon on now like a tree-ful of ravens92, with his Hollow Earth, an enthusiasm, Mason judges, too developed to be argued away without investing more time and patience than he pos?sesses. Withal, he is too open himself to the seductions of Melancholy93 and its own comfortless phantoms94, to call anything even as remotely hopeful as this into question,— no more Doubts for Mason just at the moment, thank you,— considering how ever less serviceable to him, as his days spin onward95, they are proving to be.
"China may once have been another Planet," Capt. Zhang is now speculating, "embedded96 into the Earth thro' some very slow collision,— long ago, all populated, with its Language and Customs, arriving from the East Northeast, aiming for the Pacific,— over-shoots, plows97 into Asia, pushes up the Himalaya Range,— comes to rest intact, which is how, until the first Christian98 Travelers, it remains,—
Taking this courteously99 if not perhaps seriously, Dixon replies, "Yet, from all we know, from Newton onward, how could the mechanism100 of its approach have been other than swift and Cataclysmick?"
"Why, if, within the last few miles of mutual101 approach, a Repulsive102 Force were to come into play, between the Earth and the Chinese Planet, acting103 counter to, and thus slowing, the Collision,— by analogy, of course, to Father Boscovich's Theory of Repulsion, at very close dis?tance, among the primordial104 Atoms of Nature."
Dixon shakes his head, as if to clear some Passage within. "This is Jesuit physics. Why are you telling us this? Why must you ever be 'sub?tle'? Is this what Jesuits believe to be the origin of China?"
"Zarpazo does." The Chinaman beams and nods, as if Dixon has just understood a Joke.
The night before they set out westward again, Captain Shelby, from behind a can of his own Ale, brewed105 in the Shed adjoining, his face com-pos'd, inquires of them, Where is the Third Surveyor?
Mason, mistrustful, looks about as if this Newcomer might be at hand. Dixon, understanding Shelby to be posing a Riddle106, is pull'd between loyalty107 to Mason and despair at his slowness in these matters. "Pray, Captain," he feels oblig'd to play in, "what Third Surveyor is that, for we are but two."
"Why," chuckles Shelby, "you are Wise Men from the East,— and ev'ryone knows they come in Threes!"
"Eeh, eeh! That's a canny108 one, for fair!"
Mason is less amus'd. The Captain's discourse109 verges110 upon Impiety111.— Furthermore, it seems a bad Omen41. "Well. It's like the Thirteenth Guest, isn't it.”
Yet, reported sightings of the Supernumerary Figure now begin to drift in. He is seen often in the Company of an Animal that most describe as a Dog, though a few are not so sure, for its Eyes glow as if all the Crea?ture's Interior be a miniature of Hell. The best time for a Sighting seems to be at around Sunset,— just as the Axmen are leaving off work and heading for the Mess Tent, the Wind changing, here in Pennsylvania, as between this World and the Next,— when one may catch him flitting across the Visto behind the Party, back at the edge of Visibility,— black Cloak, white Wig112, black Hat, white Stock, black Breeches and so forth, on foot, carrying a three-legged Staff, with an Instrument of some kind affix'd. A rumor113 goes 'round that he is a Surveyor of Surveyors, indepen?dently hir'd by the Line Commissioners114 to keep an eye upon the first two. But where are the rest of his Party? Other interpretations115 are less Earthly. A Figure that might arouse no comment in Philadelphia, in these parts 'tis esteem'd a Wonder,— particularly as it shows no sign of having made the passage from there to here,— not, anyway, upon the Ground, nor through the Forest.
Presently, in camp, the phrase, "Resembles the old Gentleman," spo?ken32 low, is being heard, in reference to the Third Surveyor,— it having been long understood out here, as Capt. Shelby explains, that if one wishes to convey a certain Item of Spiritual Property in consideration of a Sum to be paid in advance, why, such a Contract may be arrang'd. "The old Gentleman is always interested, always buying,"— even this long at the Trade, as Shelby relates it, still resentful about his exile from the Infinite, descended116 here among the harsh Gradients of Space, subject to the cruel flow of Time,— denied the Future and the Past and thus his Omniscience,— whilst, as to drafting Contracts, left slightly worse at it than the average Philadelphia Lawyer.
"So when Brother Pritchard,— lives just over the Ridge, there,— without the Gentleman's noticing, decides to sneak117 in a force mojeure clause that turns out to contain the phrase 'Acts of God,' why there's a legal crisis, the Gentleman wishing to nullify the Contract and get his money back,— Pritchard seeking to keep the money, and his Soul as well. Very, very expensive lawyers, all from Philadelphia, are engag'd by both parties. The Journals and Broadsiders get hold of the story, and
quite excessive indeed grows the Commentary that follows, in Prose, Verse, and Caricature. The Gentleman, having virtually invented Pub-lick Sensationalism,— which is reckon'd, indeed, upon his own torrid shores, as Entertainment,— has no illusions about anyone's motives, or the chances for great harm to his Case, yet naively118, as others would say, disingenuously,— he clings to a belief in 'Justice.''
"Well I don't know what you may have heard about what we call Jus?tice up here," his Solicitor119 advises him, "but don't set your Hopes too high.— Just enjoy your Time in Town, visit the Shops, take in a Show...."
Hell, of late, has been growing so congested, that the Gentleman is happy enough to come up to Pennsylvania,— even Philadelphia in the Morning Rush seems to him a Prairie desolate,— and who even knows how many years this lawsuit120 may take? To him, as to the Deity121, 'tis the blink of an Eye. "Damn'd Souls, you think I even like damn'd Souls? I go down to that Rout122 call'd 'Processing,' see them crowding in, more and more ev'ry day, I grasp the Situation, but don't enjoy it? Who could enjoy it?"
"Upon consideration, I think you're better advis'd not to sue in any of our courts. You could get fried like a Fritter, and Counsel along with you. Don't you have any, um, machinery123 for resolving this, out there in the Cosmos124, wherever you come from?"
"A legal system? Us? Ha, ha, ha. What for? We're a Rubbish-tip, Sir! for all your worst Cases!— not that we get to pick or choose,— tho' we do have to deal with the Consequences for Eternity125, of course,— yet, there I go, complaining again.. .oh and by the way, I'm anything but 'out in the
Cosmos,' no no, being but Earth's D——l, local lad, working, in fact,for
His Omnipotence126 these days, ha-hah yes, once an equal and respected Adversary127, now but another contract employee. Ah, woe128...and forget about Luncheon,— does he even write? once a century, maybe! If any of these damn'd Souls could see the misery129 I get, maybe they wouldn't groan130 so much."
"Howbeit, Milord,— my best advice is, Drop the case."
"Suppose we just go for the money. He can keep his Soul, but posting this kind of Debit131 isn't going to amuse my Commissioners.”
"Style it an 'Investment.' Say the huge sum was to ensure his Corrup?tion. You were developing a damn'd Soul."
"Already us'd that one too much, they shut me down a few sessions back, alas132. But you seem like a Mortal of some ingenuity133. Perhaps from time to time we could chat."
"Those would, of course, be billable Hours.”
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