New York: New-York Mirror, Saturday, May 21, 1836 (volume 13, number 47). Folio, 8 leaves (pp. [369]-376), single issue, extracted. Includes "First Impressions of America. By an Inhabitant of the Moon," a three-quarter column piece signed "X. O. Z." The Lunarian considers Americans to be barbarous and rough, a "people of about the same grade of civilization as our savages who inhabit the great desert of Lunaria." Vast crowds of humans are collected in towns and cities and in New York the Lunarian sees that its inhabitants are fascinated by the fires that occur frequently for their amusement. The Lunarian, who soon acquires "a great taste for fires if they are of respectable size," decides "to set the whole city and river on fire some very cold night when there is a high wind, and ascend some thousand feet in my balloon to see the effect of so grand a blaze." Horizontal fold, a very good copy. (#155694).
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