History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . 12,000,000 the wind, is nothing butempty space. The Myenrao mount standsimmersed in water 1,050,000miles. There are seven suc-cessive mountains, like walls,surrounding it, and separatedby seven intervening rivers. 368 BAPTIST GENERAL CONVENTION. Receding from the • Myenmo mount, each mountain is half less in heightand breadth than the preceding one. The eastern side of Myenmo is fin-ished off with silver, the western with dark ruby, the southern with glass,and the northern with gold. On the t
History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . 12,000,000 the wind, is nothing butempty space. The Myenrao mount standsimmersed in water 1,050,000miles. There are seven suc-cessive mountains, like walls,surrounding it, and separatedby seven intervening rivers. 368 BAPTIST GENERAL CONVENTION. Receding from the • Myenmo mount, each mountain is half less in heightand breadth than the preceding one. The eastern side of Myenmo is fin-ished off with silver, the western with dark ruby, the southern with glass,and the northern with gold. On the top is a country 12^,000 miles in di-ameter, a city 12 1-2 miles high, with 1000 gates; the steeple of the palaceis 8750 miles high ; the length of the chariot, 1875 miles. The depth and breadth of the circumjacent river, or sea, at the foot of theMyenmo mount, are [equal] 1,050,000 miles. From this sea, each suc-ceeding sea is half less in depth and breadth than the preceding one. Thisplate represents a ground view of the Myenmo mount, and its seven sur-rounding oceans and Under the Myenmo mount are placed the tops of three mountains, likethree stones under a rice pot. The mount extends downward between them50,000 miles. Between these three mountains, under the Myenmo, is theabode of the A-thoo-ra nats, [invisible beings,] where the sands are pearlsand gold, and the rocks are precious stones. Outside of the seven encircling mountains is the continuous great this are four large islands, surrounded by 2000 small ones. The easternisland, shaped like a half moon, is 87,500 miles in diameter; the northern,shaped like a bedstead, is 100,000 miles ; the western, shaped like the fullfnoon, 87,500 miles, and the southern island, of a triangular shape, 125,000• miles in diameter. Each small island is shaped like the large one to whichit belongs, and the inhabitants of each are in shape like the island on whichthey dwelL The inhabitants on one of these principal i
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