To Professor Percival Lowell
A.B., LL.D.
Director of the Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona
To whose careful and painstaking researches, extending over many years, the world owes so much of it’s knowledge of the Planet Mars.
This little book is respectfully inscribed by one who has derived infinite pleasure from the perusal of his works on the subject.
Frontispiece
View from the air-ship, over the canals and the city of Sirapion
“What a splendid view we then had over the country all around us!... Across the country, in line after line, were the canals which we had been so anxious to see, extending as far as the eye could reach!”
Drawn by M. Wicks