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“This I hold A secret worth its weight in gold To those who write as I write now; Not to mind where they go, or how— Through ditch, through bog, o’er bridge and stile; Make it but worth the reader’s while, And keep a passage fair and plain, Always to bring him back again.” Churchill.
THROUGH THE SUN IN AN AIRSHIP
BY
JOHN MASTIN, F.S.A. Scot. F.L.S., F.C.S., F.R.A.S., F.R.M.S., R.B.A. AUTHOR OF “PARASITES OF INSECTS,” “THE TRUE ANALYSIS OF MILK,” “PLATE-CULTURE AND STAINING OF AMŒBÆ,” “THE STOLEN PLANET,” “THE IMMORTAL LIGHT,” ETC. ETC.
LONDON CHARLES GRIFFIN & COMPANY, LTD. EXETER STREET, STRAND [All rights reserved]
Printed by Ballantyne & Co. Limited Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London
TO PROFESSOR SIR HUBERT VON HERKOMER C.V.O., R.A., D.C.L., ETC.
AS A SLIGHT MARK OF GRATITUDE FOR MANY PAST KINDNESSES THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY HIS FORMER PUPIL THE AUTHOR
Totley Brook near Sheffield, June 1909