Excerpt from The Secret of the Crater: A Mountain Moloch
I wonder how soon the time will come when the world shall be so thoroughly explored and its peoples so cosmopolitanised that adventure and discovery will be things of the past. A few days since I should have said that this undesirable yet inevitable epoch was already present with us; that the field of real romance was even now synonymous with the field of professed fiction. No more Odysseys; no Circe; no Lotos-eaters; no more travels of Sir John Mandeville; no Prester Johns, with their mysterious courts.
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