Chapter

1 XVIII| word.~“You are Barbicane, I suppose?” said Michel Ardan, in
2 V    |  tail of a comet? Or let us suppose a comet whose power of attraction
3 V    |     be so formidable as you suppose.”~“And why not?”~“Because
4 VI   |  been stopped.”~“But let us suppose so,” said Michel.~“It is
5 XV   |  under the same conditions. Suppose we had attained our end,
6 XVIII|     as to the stone, let us suppose it to be a comet.”~“Ah!
7 XIX  |     draw some hypotheses, I suppose?”~“Two,” answered Barbicane; “