Chapter I: Front Matter

A
VOYAGE TO THE MOON:
WITH
SOME ACCOUNT
OF THE
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY,
OF THE
PEOPLE OF MOROSOFIA,
AND
OTHER LUNARIANS.

BY GEORGE TUCKER (JOSEPH ATTERLEY)

"It is the very error of the moon,
She comes more near the earth than she was wont,
And makes men mad."--_Othello_.

1827

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Atterley's birth and education--He makes a voyage--
Founders off the Burman coast--Adventures in
that Empire--Meets with a learned Brahmin from
Benares.

CHAPTER II.

The Brahmin's illness--He reveals an important secret
to Atterley--Curious information concerning the
Moon--The Glonglims--They plan a voyage to
the Moon.

CHAPTER III.

The Brahmin and Atterley prepare for their voyage--
Description of their travelling machine--Incidents
of the voyage--The appearance of the earth;
Africa; Greece--The Brahmin's speculations on
the different races of men--National character.

CHAPTER IV.

Continuation of the voyage--View of Europe; Atlantic
Ocean; America--Speculations on the future
destiny of the United States--Moral reflections--
Pacific Ocean--Hypothesis on the origin of the
Moon.

CHAPTER V.

The voyage continued--Second view of Asia--The
Brahmin's speculations concerning India--Increase
of the Moon's attraction--Appearance of the Moon
--They land on the Moon.

CHAPTER VI.

Some account of Morosofia, and its chief city, Alamatua
--Singular dresses of the Lunar ladies--Religious
self-denial--Glonglim miser and spendthrift.

CHAPTER VII.

Physical peculiarities of the Moon--Celestial phenomena
--Farther description of the Lunarians--National
prejudice--Lightness of bodies--The Brahmin
carries Atterley to sup with a philosopher--
His character and opinions.

CHAPTER VIII.

A celebrated physician: his ingenious theories in physics:
his mechanical inventions--The feather-hunting Glonglim.

CHAPTER IX.

The fortune-telling philosopher, who inspected the
finger nails: his visiters--Another philosopher,
who judged of the character by the hair--The
fortune-teller duped--Predatory warfare.

CHAPTER X.

The travellers visit a gentleman farmer, who is a great
projector: his breed of cattle: his apparatus for
cooking--He is taken dangerously ill.

CHAPTER XI.

Lunarian physicians: their consultation--While they
dispute the patient recovers--The travellers visit
the celebrated teacher Lozzi Pozzi.

CHAPTER XII.

Election of the Numnoonce, or town-constable--
Violence of parties--Singular institution of the Syringe
Boys--The prize-fighters--Domestic manufactures.

CHAPTER XIII.

Description of the Happy Valley--The laws, customs,
and manners of the Okalbians--Theory of population
--Rent--System of government.

CHAPTER XIV.

Further account of Okalbia--The Field of Roses--
Curious superstition concerning that flower--The
pleasures of smell traced to association, by a
Glonglim philosopher.

CHAPTER XV.

Atterley goes to the great monthly fair--Its various
exhibitions; difficulties--Preparations to leave the
Moon--Curiosities procured by Atterley--Regress
to the Earth.

CHAPTER XVI.

The Brahmin gives Atterley a history of his life.