MD3PAD 724-726

[Toby G Levy]

        Mason has taken to sending books to Maskelyne trying to prove
his lack of sanity. The most recent being a book concerning Bernoulli's
brachistochrone problem. Here's the Hyperarts explanation:
"'brachistochrone' is the curve providing the quickest descent (for an
object sliding down the curve) between two given points."

        As Mason heads toward the pet bog, he sees lights heading in the
opposite direction and his guide tells him not to get their attention,
as they are "not particularly helpful."

        As Mason is at work digging up the peat that has not yet
liquefied, a man comes up and asks Mason if he could use his "London
arts" to locate Saint Brendan's well, which supposedly contains the same
water that was drunk in the garden of Eden. Mason runs and fetches the
knife he got in his dream in Capetown, and rubs water from the lost well
on it. He carries it like a dowsing rod and moves around the area. He
finds a spot and helps them dig. Soon they find a spring and a group of
people taste it, some saying it is the water they seek and some
disagreeing.

        The next night he dreams of Rebekah who tells him he did not
find the actual spring but a representation of it.

        As Mason searches the skies for a "new comet," he experiences
the sensation that he is seeing the  stars in a new third dimension.

        The scene shifts to Mason dickering with Maskelyne about which
lyrical phrases from mason's report should be left in or taken out to
avoid controversy.  They agree to take out a part concerning a sign from
Heaven to earth of an infant that "must, again, re-make the World."

Toby