text:  The ascending-room (which the Persian prince describes as "rising like an eagle with large wings into the atmosphere till after an hour's time it stopped in the sky and opened its beak so that we came out") he merely alludes to as "the talismanic process by which I was carried to the upper regions;" and though the panoramic view of London is pronounced to be "of all the wonders of the metropolis the most wonderful " it is dismissed with the remark that "it is useless to attempt to describe it in detail