It was from these cliffs that the spangled radiance came, shimmering out from all their lustrous surfaces.

To left and to right, as far as the eye could see, they stretched--and they vanished in the auroral nebulosity on high! "Look at that!" exclaimed Larry.

I followed his pointing finger.

On the face of the shining wall, stretched between two colossal columns, hung an incredible veil; prismatic, gleaming with all the colours of the spectrum.

It was like a web of rainbows woven by the fingers of the daughters of the Jinn.