Digital heart book

We have but one name
each."
"I should think that would be confusing," said I. "For example, how are
you to be distinguished from any other Thorwald?"
"There is no other that I ever heard of. There are names enough to go all
around."
As night came on we were brought face to face with the great instrument
whose work of observing the earth was known far and wide.
Proctor was occupied a short time in adjusting it, and then asked us if we
could recognize what was in the field. I motioned to the doctor, but as he
insisted that I should take the first view I put my eye to the glass with
much trepidation. Instead of the magnified disk of the earth, which I
expected to behold, I saw but a small portion of the surface, and that a
familiar stretch of coast line. I never knew whether Proctor thought by
our accent or by the cut of our clothes that we were New Englanders, but
he had so pointed the telescope that our first sight of the earth showed
us dear old Massachusetts Bay, with its islands and boundaries.


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