1915 Dystopian Science Fiction, Utopia We had to sleep after that long
sweep through the air, but we turned out early enough next day, and
again we rose softly up the height till we could top the crowning trees
and see the broad fair land at our pleasure. "Semitropical. Looks like a
first-rate climate. It's wonderful what a little height will do for
temperature." Terry was studying the forest growth. "Little height! Is
that what you call little?" I asked. Our instruments measured it
clearly. We had not realized the long gentle rise from the coast
perhaps. "Mighty lucky piece of land, I call it," Terry pursued. "Now
for the folks-I've had enough scenery." So we sailed low, crossing back
and forth, quartering the country as we went, and studying it. We saw-I
can't remember now how much of this we noted then and how much was
supplemented by our later knowledge, but we could not help seeing this
much, even on that excited day-a land in a state of perfect cultivation,
where even the forests...