in the nether regions.  Thus, although we are mere sojourner’s on the surface of the planet, chained to a mere point in space, enduring but for a moment of time, the human mind is not only enabled to number worlds beyond the unassisted ken of mortal eye, but to trace the events of indefinite ages before the creation of our race, and is not even withheld from penetrating into the dark secrets of the ocean, or the interior of the solid globe; free, like the spirit which the poet described as animating the universe,

------ire per omnes
Terrasque, tractusque maris, ccelumque profisndutn.

[Footnote:  “To go through all binds, and the tracts of the ocean, and the boundless heaven.”]