The works of Edgar Allan Poe; newly collected and edited, with a memoir, critical introductions, and notes, by Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry; the illustrations by Albert Edward Sterner.

TALES OF PSEUDO-SCIENCE
the darkness and the distance. But little time will
be left me to ponder upon my destiny! The circles
rapidly grow small —we are plunging madly within
the grasp of the whirlpool- and amid a roaring, and
bellowing, and thundering of ocean and tempest, the
ship is quivering - oh God! and -- going down!
NOTE. - The " MS. Found in a Bottle " was originally
published in I831, and it was not until many years afterwards that I became acquainted with the maps of Mercator, in which the ocean is represented as rushing, by four
mouths, into the (northern) Polar Gulf, to be absorbed
into the bowels of the earth; the Pole itself being represented by a black rock, towering to a prodigious height.