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FLORIDA AND TEXAS One question remained yet to be decided; it was necessary to choose a favorable spot for the experiment. According to the advice of the Observatory of Cambridge, the gun must be fir…
URBI ET ORBI The astronomical, mechanical, and topographical difficulties resolved, finally came the question of finance. The sum required was far too great for any individual, or even any single Sta…
STONES HILL When the decision was arrived at by the Gun Club, to the disparagement of Texas, every one in America, where reading is a universal acquirement, set to work to study the geography of Flor…
PICKAXE AND TROWEL The same evening Barbicane and his companions returned to Tampa Town; and Murchison, the engineer, re-embarked on board the Tampico for New Orleans. His object was to enlist an arm…
THE FETE OF THE CASTING During the eight months which were employed in the work of excavation the preparatory works of the casting had been carried on simultaneously with extreme rapidity. A stranger…
THE COLUMBIAD Had the casting succeeded? They were reduced to mere conjecture. There was indeed every reason to expect success, since the mould has absorbed the entire mass of the molten metal; still…
A TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH The great works undertaken by the Gun Club had now virtually come to an end; and two months still remained before the day for the discharge of the shot to the moon. To the gene…
THE PASSENGER OF THE ATLANTA If this astounding news, instead of flying through the electric wires, had simply arrived by post in the ordinary sealed envelope, Barbicane would not have hesitated a mo…
A MONSTER MEETING On the following day Barbicane, fearing that indiscreet questions might be put to Michel Ardan, was desirous of reducing the number of the audience to a few of the initiated, his ow…
ATTACK AND RIPOSTE As soon as the excitement had subsided, the following words were heard uttered in a strong and determined voice: “Now that the speaker has favored us with so much imagination, wou…
