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Most improbable, all this, and contradictory; you told me but just before, that the earth was so little by its great distance, that you could scarce find it, and, if it had not been for the Colossus, it would not have appeared at all; and now, on a sudden, like another Lynceus, you can spy out men, trees, animals, nay, I suppose, even a flea's nest, if you chose it.

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Sources & credits: Francklin

Francklin — Trips to the Moon (Lucian of Samosata, translated by Thomas Francklin) (author lived 120–180). Public Domain. Lucian of Samosata, translated by Thomas Francklin, Trips to the Moon; public domain in the US; text from Project Gutenberg #10430. Source

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