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when ever I touched my eyes I could see any place I thought about because several times I saw those at home just as if I had been there. & you see at first all those things astonished me but I soon became so used to this that even now I was not astonished when I saw that my friend's fur coat- his hair or fur was getting longer all the time and also that the coat I had on had grown a coat of fur two or 3 inches long - I knew that that was the way it was there you never felt cold, you never had to change coats- when the weather grew colder the clothes grew heavier when it rained they seemed to be rain proof as you had only to look at your clothes & you knew what kind of weather it was- So I knew it must be growing colder although I could tell it in no other way as I was as comfortable as if I had been at home. The farther we advanced the more uninteresting became the country- & the more I rubbed my eyes to get views of the country we going to - but I did not have long do this for soon we began to plane down here we were arrived & no one came to greet us although everyone seemed happy in what he was doing & glad to see us but they all acted if I was one of their family- At that time nothing seemed strange to me it seemed as if I had seen those things all my life & they suited me Oh! so well. As I now look back it seems strange.

There were great forests of tremendous big trees which must have thousand of years old- they were covered with toys of all kind in differing degrees of perfection the trees were in rows [[/strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] as if in some distant age they had been planted in regular rows up the mountain sides & in between were as it were glaciers if [[/strikethrough]] mor [[/strikethrough]] toys as fast as those at the foot were removed there places were filled with others & those highest up the mountain moved down slowly- only there was no crowding each one had his place & though he might not