and questioned it of our affairs at home, and how all did there, which related everything unto us. As some have affirmed every country to be governed specially by some particular Star, so he feigned a light in this city for every nation which could tell all that was done amongst them.That night we made our abode there, and on the next morrow returned to our ship, and sailing near unto the clouds had a sight of the city Nephelococcygia, which we beheld with great wonder, but entered not into it, for the wind was against us. The king thereof was Coronus, the son of Cottyphion: and I could not choose but think upon the poet Aristophanes,In his comedy called the Clouds, which he wrote against Socrates. how wise a man he was, and how true a reporter, and how little cause there is to question his fidelity for what he hath written.
The third after, the ocean appeared plainly unto us, though we could see no land but what was in the air, and those countries also