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 1 VII   |          yards a second. The Rodman Columbiad threw a shot weighing half
 2 IX    |      hundred pounds, and the Rodman Columbiad uses only one hundred and
 3 IX    |            service is not so to our Columbiad. We shall run no danger
 4 IX    |          those difficulties. In his Columbiad charges Rodman employed
 5 IX    |         feet within the bore of the Columbiad. In this way the shot will
 6 X     |      anything to beat this 900-feet Columbiad? What armor-plate could
 7 X     |          would melt on quitting the Columbiad, and fall back in a red-hot
 8 X     |           it impossible to load the Columbiad, and that the pyroxyle will
 9 X     |           No. 4 ($4,000).— That the Columbiad will burst at the first
10 XI    |             globe where the immense Columbiad should be cast.~On the 20th
11 XI    |      finally agreed, then, that the Columbiad must be cast on the soil
12 XI    |         moulding and casting of the Columbiad, consisting as it did of
13 XII   |           materials for casting the Columbiad. The work was bound to be
14 XIII  |             do better than sink our Columbiad in these high grounds.”~“
15 XIII  |           the construction of their Columbiad.~“Halt!” said Barbicane,
16 XIV   |            exterior diameter of the Columbiad. Upon this wheel rested
17 XV    |            to use cast iron for the Columbiad, and in particular the white
18 XV    |        reserved for the bore of the Columbiad. This cylinder was composed
19 XV    |          Maston. The casting of the Columbiad is an extremely delicate,
20 XV    |             whom the casting of the Columbiad was a matter of personal
21 XVI   |                    CHAPTER XVI~ THE COLUMBIAD~Had the casting succeeded?
22 XVI   |          death in the depths of the Columbiad.~The cannon was then finished;
23 XVI   |      inflexible. When, however, the Columbiad was entirely finished, this
24 XVI   |            contemplate this immense Columbiad; but to descend into its
25 XVI   |           the first visitors of the Columbiad were the members of the
26 XVI   |            formed the bottom of the Columbiad, and lighted by a jet of
27 XVI   |          the bottom of the gigantic Columbiad.~J. T. Maston was no longer
28 XXII  |      friends, to pay a visit to the Columbiad. He was highly gratified
29 XXIII |            On the completion of the Columbiad the public interest centered
30 XXIV  |             that both telescope and Columbiad should be erected within
31 XXV   |             than the loading of the Columbiad, and the introduction into
32 XXV   |            thence were taken to the Columbiad by barefooted workmen, who
33 XXV   |   brightness into the depths of the Columbiad. There the cartridges were
34 XXV   |         placed in the bottom of the Columbiad. So far the operation had
35 XXV   |      cartridges to the mouth of the Columbiad; but the president, having
36 XXV   |             the projectile into the Columbiad, and to place it on its
37 XXV   |       simpler,” replied Ardan; “the Columbiad will be always there. Well!
38 XXV   |         place the projectile in the Columbiad, an operation abundantly
39 XXV   |           down of the charge in the Columbiad.~“I have lost,” said the
40 XXVI  |      inclined over the mouth of the Columbiad, required a certain period
41 XXVI  | entrance-aperture. The mouth of the Columbiad, now completely disencumbered,
42 XXVI  |            the yawning mouth of the Columbiad.~Murchison followed with
43 XXVI  |        spark into the breech of the Columbiad.~An appalling unearthly
44 XXVII |        meteor.~The discharge of the Columbiad was accompanied by a perfect
45 XXVIII|        projectile discharged by the Columbiad at Stones Hill has~been
46 XXVIII|            that the gun should be a Columbiad cast in iron, 900 feet long,
47 XXVIII|          stupendous labor, that the Columbiad was cast with full success.
48 XXVIII|          detonation produced by the Columbiad, had the immediate effect
49 XXVIII|          projectile launched by the Columbiad of Stones Hill had been
50 XXVIII|          been the projectile of the Columbiad. Second, errors of theory
51 I     |           outside, the mouth of the Columbiad was instantly disencumbered
52 I     | communicates with the charge of the Columbiad. At that precise moment
53 I     |      successful, and lastly, as the Columbiad has been loaded without
54 I     |           four thousand because the Columbiad will not burst, and five
55 I     |             you gain the first, the Columbiad will have burst, and the
56 II    |        thousand dollars because the Columbiad did not burst; five thousand
57 II    |          hear the detonation of the Columbiad?”~For want of an answer
58 II    |          hear the detonation of the Columbiad.”~“And it is——?” said Nicholl.~“
59 IV    |        ought to have on leaving the Columbiad in order to attain the moon.”~“
60 VII   |            counsel together. If the Columbiad is not there, the projectile
61 VII   |         They could have trebled the Columbiad’s charge; they could have
62 VII   |          what is easier? Is not the Columbiad still buried in the soil
63 IX    |          all precautions taken, the Columbiad was not fairly pointed.
64 X     |          the bottom of the enormous Columbiad, pointed perpendicularly
65 XIX   |            it left the mouth of the Columbiad, a speed of 16,000 yards
66 XX    |         they will try it again. The Columbiad is still sunk in the soil
67 XXI   |      morning, the projectile of the Columbiad fell into the Pacific. Send
68 XXIII |        heroes from the mouth of the Columbiad?~Thus they sped from one