I was told that the monikin world was pretty nearly equally divided into two parts, the old and the new.

The latter had remained uninhabited, until within a few generations, when certain monikins, who were too good to live in the old world, emigrated in a body, and set up for themselves in the new.
This, the brigadier admitted, was the Leaplow account of the matter; the inhabitants of the old countries, on the other hand, invariably maintaining that they had peopled the new countries by sending all those of their own communities there, who were not fit to stay at home.

This little obscurity in the history of the new world, he considers of no great moment, as such trifling discrepancies must always depend on the character of the historian.

Leaphigh was by no means the only country in the elder monikin region.

There were among others, for instance, Leapup and Leapdown; Leapover and Leapthrough; Leaplong and Leapshort; Leapround and Leapunder.