Election of the Numnoonce, or town-constable-- Violence of parties--Singular institution of the Syringe Boys--The prize-fighters--Domestic manufactures.
Description of the Happy Valley--The laws, customs, and manners of the Okalbians--Theory of population --Rent--System of government.
Further account of Okalbia--The Field of Roses-- Curious superstition concerning that flower--The pleasures of smell traced to association, by a Glonglim philosopher.
Atterley goes to the great monthly fair--Its various exhibitions; difficulties--Preparations to leave the Moon--Curiosities procured by Atterley--Regress to the Earth.
The Brahmin gives Atterley a history of his life.
The Brahmin's story continued--The voyage concluded --Atterley and the Brahmin separate--Atterley arrives in New-York.
Appendix: Anonymous Review of _A Voyage to the Moon,_ reprinted from _The American Quarterly Review_ No. 5 (March 1828)
Having, by a train of fortunate circumstances, accomplished a voyage, of which the history of mankind affords no example; having, moreover, exerted every faculty of body and mind, to make my adventures useful to my countrymen, and even to mankind, by imparting to them the acquisition of secrets in physics and morals, of which they had not formed the faintest conception,--I flattered myself that both in the character of traveller and public benefactor, I had earned for myself an immortal name. But how these fond, these justifiable hopes have been answered, the following narrative will show.
On my return to this my native State, as soon as it was noised abroad that I had met with extraordinary adventures, and made a most wonderful voyage, crowds of people pressed eagerly to see me. I at first met their inquiries with a cautious silence, which, however, but sharpened their curiosity. At length I was visited by a near relation, with whom I felt less disposed to reserve. With friendly solicitude he inquired "how much I had made by my voyage;" and when he was informed that, although I had added to my knowledge, I had not improved my fortune, he stared at me a while, and remarking that he had business at the Bank, as well as an appointment on 'Change, suddenly took his leave. After this, I was not much interrupted by the tribe of inquisitive idlers, but was visited principally by a few men of science, who wished to learn what I could add to their knowledge of nature. To this class I was more communicative; and when I severally informed them that I had actually been to the Moon, some of them shrugged their shoulders, others laughed in my face, and some were angry at my supposed attempt to deceive them; but all, with a single exception, were incredulous.