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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: with my compass intact I should have made the trip, barring
accidents, in between four and five hours. As it turned
out, however, morning found me speeding over a vast expanse
of dead sea bottom after nearly six hours of continuous
flight at high speed. Presently a great city showed
below me, but it was not Helium, as that alone of all
Barsoomian metropolises consists in two immense circular
walled cities about seventy-five miles apart and would
have been easily distinguishable from the altitude at
which I was flying.
Believing that I had come too far to the north and west,
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