They led me to their Company, where I learnt that I was in reality in _France_, but that it was in _New-France_: So that some time after, I was presented before the Governor, who asked me my Country, my Name and Quality; and after that I had satisfied him in all Points, and told him the pleasant Success of my Voyage, whether he believed it, or only pretended to do so, he had the goodness to order me a Chamber in his Apartment. I was very happy, in meeting with a Man capable of lofty Opinions, and who was not at all surprised when I told him that the Earth must needs have turned during my Elevation; seeing that having begun to mount about Two Leagues from _Paris_, I was fallen, as it were, by a perpendicular Line in _Canada_. [1] Cf. M. Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, act III., scene xi.: "One way was to stand naked in the sunshine, in a harness thickly studded with glass phials, each filled with morning dew. The sun in drawing up the dew, you see, could not have helped drawing me up too!" (Miss Gertrude Hall' s translation.) [2] Generous = _noble_. Cf. Lord Burleigh, _Precepts to his Son_: "Let her not be poor, how _generous_ soever; for a man can buy nothing in the market with gentility." [3] Stammering, mumbling; a North of England word. [4] Paul Lacroix, the editor of the French edition of Cyrano's works, not understanding this phrase, has ingeniously invented the interpretation of "quarantine officer" for it. Not only have the words never had this meaning, but they are evidently a proper name. And in fact _François de l'Hospital, Maréchal de France_, was Governor of Paris in 1649, the year when the _Voyage to the Moon_ was probably written. Cyrano, thinking he has fallen in France, near Paris, and being asked if he carries news of the fleet to the Governor, naturally answers that he knows nothing of ships going to Paris, and that he carries no news to the Maréchal de l'Hospital. CHAPTER III. _Of his Conversation with the Vice-Roy of New France; and of the system of this Universe._