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LUNAR LANDSCAPES At half-past two in the morning, the projectile was over the thirteenth lunar parallel and at the effective distance of five hundred miles, reduced by the glasses to five. It still s…
THE NIGHT OF THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR HOURS AND A HALF At the moment when this phenomenon took place so rapidly, the projectile was skirting the moon’s north pole at less than twenty-five miles d…
HYPERBOLA OR PARABOLA We may, perhaps, be astonished to find Barbicane and his companions so little occupied with the future reserved for them in their metal prison which was bearing them through the…
THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE The projectile had just escaped a terrible danger, and a very unforseen one. Who would have thought of such an encounter with meteors? These erring bodies might create serious…
TYCHO At six in the evening the projectile passed the south pole at less than forty miles off, a distance equal to that already reached at the north pole. The elliptical curve was being rigidly carri…
GRAVE QUESTIONS But the projectile had passed the enceinte of Tycho, and Barbicane and his two companions watched with scrupulous attention the brilliant rays which the celebrated mountain shed so c…
A STRUGGLE AGAINST THE IMPOSSIBLE For a long time Barbicane and his companions looked silently and sadly upon that world which they had only seen from a distance, as Moses saw the land of Canaan, and…
THE SOUNDINGS OF THE SUSQUEHANNA Well, lieutenant, and our soundings?” “I think, sir, that the operation is nearing its completion,” replied Lieutenant Bronsfield. “But who would have thought of fin…
J. T. MASTON RECALLED “It is ‘they’ come back again!” the young midshipman had said, and every one had understood him. No one doubted but that the meteor was the projectile of the Gun Club. As to the…
RECOVERED FROM THE SEA The spot where the projectile sank under the waves was exactly known; but the machinery to grasp it and bring it to the surface of the ocean was still wanting. It must first be…
