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1 XXVIII| country situated between the 0 and 28th degrees of north
2 VII | and fifty dollars ($173,050). I know it quite well.
3 III | oscillated between 25.24 and 25.08.~It was fine weather.~Barbicane
4 XXVII | were due on the 4th at 0h. P.M. at their destination.
5 XIV | that lapse of time, namely, 112 feet. This depth was doubled
6 XV | furnace had been charged with 114,000 pounds weight of metal
7 XIX | the earth with a speed of 115,200 miles per hour.~“We
8 XX | was on the night of the 11th-12th of December, she was in
9 XXVII | the mass, was pitched back 120 feet, shooting like a projectile
10 Not | French usage in 1865. >page 125 has perigee 86,410 leagues (
11 XVII | 43@ south latitude, and 12@ east longitude. Its center
12 XV | had, however, to deal with 136,000,000 pounds of iron,
13 XXII | madness during the year 1399, sometimes during the new,
14 IV | which travels daily forward 13@ 10’ 35’’, will be distant
15 IV | moon in 50,000 seconds, or 13hrs. 53m. 20sec. It will be
16 IV | to discharge it 97hrs. 13m. 20sec. before the arrival
17 Not | lunar latitude instead of 13th?> ><there seems to be an
18 V | feet, and twenty-two exceed 14,400 feet. The highest summit
19 XV | furnaces contained nearly 140,000 pounds weight of metal.
20 VII | Constantinople by Mahomet II., in 1453, stone shot of 1,900 pounds
21 XIII | discovered on Palm Sunday, in 1512, by Juan Ponce de Leon,
22 XVII | 58@ south latitude, and 15@ east longitude. Its height
23 II | inhabitants of the moon. In 1649 a Frenchman, one Jean Baudoin,
24 II | speed would be reduced to 9,165 yards. In any case we have
25 XXII | instance, during an epidemic in 1693, a large number of persons
26 XVII | 77@ south latitude, and 16@ east longitude. It forms
27 XVII | that, rose to a height of 17,400 feet the annular mountain
28 Not | maybe 18000 instead of 17000 yardssec?> ><30th degree
29 VII | thousand and fifty dollars ($173,050). I know it quite well.
30 XX | replied Ardan; “Herschel, in 1787, observed a great number
31 XIII | It was Schroeter who in 1789 first drew attention to
32 XX | watching the eclipse of July 18, 1860, probed that the horns
33 IX | occupy a height of more than 180 feet within the bore of
34 Not | former accepted.~><maybe 18000 instead of 17000 yardssec?> ><
35 XI | bought from Napoleon in 1803 at the price of sixteen
36 XI | the Americans ever since 1820.”~“Yes!” returned the Tribune; “
37 IX | was first discovered in 1832, by Braconnot, a French
38 II | oeuvre of its time. About 1835 a small treatise, translated
39 IX | called it xyloidine. In 1838 another Frenchman, Pelouze,
40 XI | incorporated into the Union in 1845?”~“Undoubtedly,” replied
41 XIX | despair of the Chambertin of 1853. The repast finished, observation
42 XXVIII| THE SECOND~During the year 186-, the whole world was greatly
43 XX | the eclipse of July 18, 1860, probed that the horns of
44 Not | don’t know French usage in 1865. >page 125 has perigee 86,
45 XXII | experiment, tried on the 18th of October, had yielded
46 X | of the challenge, on the 19th of May he received a sealed
47 XIV | been frozen to death.~[3] 1@ Fahrenheit.~“Well!” observed
48 Not | book. >For example, page 207 has “thirteenth” where “
49 IV | seconds, that is 83hrs. 20m. in reaching the point where
50 IV | be accomplished will be 214,976 miles. But although
51 XII | contributions amounted to the sum of 216,000 florins— a perfect godsend.~
52 XXII | start, which they did on the 21st of December, at eight o’
53 VI | only was the mean distance 234,347 miles, but that astronomers
54 IV | in its apogee the moon is 247,552 miles, and in its perigee,
55 XXII | expected.~The next day, the 24th, in spite of the fatigue
56 V | temperature of space at 250@ Fahrenheit below zero. We
57 XII | subscribed for a sum of 1,253,930 francs. At that price
58 XIV | of earth to excavate in 255 days; that is to say, in
59 VIII | the same body were removed 257,542 miles further off, in
60 XXII | no other result, nor the 26th.~It was disheartening. They
61 V | assigned a mean altitude of 27,000 feet. After him Hevelius,
62 XII | Confederation pledged itself to 34,285 florins. It was impossible
63 IX | was in reality a fall of 8,296 leagues on an orb, it is
64 XVII | about the 80th parallel, in 30@ longitude. This heap of
65 XIV | perfect emigration.~On the 31st of October, at ten o’clock
66 II | ponderous proportions of a 32-inch mortar. It was pointed
67 XI | Texas plumed itself upon its 330,000 natives; Florida, with
68 XII | Confederation pledged itself to 34,285 florins. It was impossible
69 VI | was the mean distance 234,347 miles, but that astronomers
70 IV | travels daily forward 13@ 10’ 35’’, will be distant from
71 VI | Nicholl, “that the day lasts 360 hours!”~“And to compensate
72 XII | contingent the enormous sum of 368,733 roubles. No one need
73 XII | not do less than give 1,372,640 piastres; and she gave
74 XXII | departure, had procured a 38-inch mortar from the arsenal
75 XXVIII| have to be put off to the 3d of January in the following
76 XIII | a distance not exceeding 40 miles. Through the glasses
77 III | at a temperature of above 400@. But there again they were
78 IV | discharged at 10hrs. 46m. 40sec. of the 1st of December
79 XVIII | Neander, situated on the 40th meridian. Another, by a
80 IV | that quantity, i. e. by 52@ 41’ 20’’, a space which corresponds
81 XVII | due. Tycho is situated in 43@ south latitude, and 12@
82 VII | weigh, in cast-iron, 67,440 pounds; cast in aluminum,
83 XVII | by the glasses to within 450 yards. They did not again
84 XV | been situated about the 45@ south latitude on the invisible
85 IV | earth; that is to say at 4752 of its passage. At that
86 VIII | point would be situated at 4760ths of the whole journey, i.e.,
87 XXVIII| 11th of December at 8h. 47m. P.M., the projectile launched
88 XXVI | that very night at 10h. 48m. 40s. P.M., more than eighteen
89 XX | at this moment we have 3,508 fathoms of line out, and
90 XII | second-rate states by a grant of 513,000 francs— about two centimes
91 VIII | whole journey, i.e., at 78,514 leagues from the earth.
92 XIII | annular mountain, situated in 51@ north latitude, and 9@ east
93 XIII | feet, rose Mount Helicon, 1,520 feet high, and round about
94 IV | that quantity, i. e. by 52@ 41’ 20’’, a space which
95 IV | 50,000 seconds, or 13hrs. 53m. 20sec. It will be desirable,
96 IX | your cannon do not exceed 54,000 cubic feet, it would
97 VIII | same body were removed 257,542 miles further off, in other
98 XIV | months, so that you have 2,543,400 cubic feet of earth
99 XIII | predominant at a height of 5,550 feet with its elliptical
100 IV | its apogee the moon is 247,552 miles, and in its perigee,
101 I | effective members and 30,565 corresponding members.~One
102 XVII | the disc, is situated in 58@ south latitude, and 15@
103 XIII | sea, in 27@ 7’ N. lat. and 5@ 7’ W. long. of the meridian
104 X | during the night of the 5th-6th of December, the travelers
105 XV | melt simultaneously these 60,000 tons of iron. Each of
106 V | towers to a height of 22,606 feet above the surface of
107 XII | do less than give 1,372,640 piastres; and she gave them
108 IV | and in its perigee, 218,657 miles only distant; a fact
109 XVII | border, extending from the 65@ of latitude to the pole.~
110 VII | would weigh, in cast-iron, 67,440 pounds; cast in aluminum,
111 XX | was not yet completed; 1,670 fathoms were still out,
112 VIII | that an object weighing 70,000 pounds on the earth
113 Not | lines at a length of (up to) 72 >characters, >with only
114 XII | the enormous sum of 368,733 roubles. No one need be
115 XVII | others measure 150, 100, or 75 miles.”~“Ah! my friends,”
116 V | and Fort Reliance, that is 76@ Fahrenheit below zero.”~“
117 VIII | whole journey, i.e., at 78,514 leagues from the earth.
118 XIX | morning on the night of the 7th-8th of December. So that, if
119 XIII | projectile, at the height of 80@, was only separated from
120 XVII | attention. It was about the 80th parallel, in 30@ longitude.
121 II | it. The instrument showed 81@ Fahr.~“Yes,” he exclaimed, “
122 IV | 300,000 seconds, that is 83hrs. 20m. in reaching the point
123 IX | Barbicane, “in a distance of 84,000 leagues, it wanted no
124 IV | makes a difference of 28,895 miles, or more than one-ninth
125 XXVIII| the 11th of December at 8h. 47m. P.M., the projectile
126 V | succeeded in measuring 1,905 different elevations, of
127 IV | radius of the earth, i. e. 3,919 miles; the result of which
128 VIII | earth would weigh but 1,920 pounds on the surface of
129 XII | subscribed for a sum of 1,253,930 francs. At that price they
130 VI | equal to rather more than 10,936 cubic yards English.~“And
131 XVII | height is estimated at 22,950 feet. The travelers, at
132 IV | accomplished will be 214,976 miles. But although the
133 IV | therefore, to discharge it 97hrs. 13m. 20sec. before the
134 Not | space between sentences. >@ degree sign >L for British
135 V | in the sixteenth century A.D., observations have been
136 XV | accomplished, it was kept in abeyance for a few minutes in order
137 XXV | seconded him to the best of his ability, by giving vigorous chase
138 IX | employ the means which had so ably weakened the shock at departure,
139 XII | by means of glasses, the above-named distance was reduced to
140 XXI | cried J. T. Maston, ex abrupto, “our president was publicly
141 VIII | tea destined to help the absorption of a dozen sandwiches. He
142 XX | who organized this equally absurd and impossible experiment!”~
143 XIX | thing as distance exists. Absurdity, folly, idiotic nonsense!
144 III | shock. Their provisions were abundant, and plentiful enough to
145 XXI | lunar disc, J. T. Maston abusing the learned Belfast as usual,
146 VII | into the crater’s gaping abysses, and followed the capricious
147 XIV | said Michel, “slightly academical perhaps.”~“It follows, then,”
148 V | of Fourier, of the French Academy of Science, it is not supposed
149 Not | dollar-sign preceeds ligatures and accented characters. > The accent
150 XXII | insane persons underwent an accession of their disorder twice
151 XXVI | the railway brought fresh accessions of sightseers; and, according
152 XV | subsided by degrees; its accidental brilliancy died away; the
153 VIII | morning, Nicholl having accidentally let a glass slip from his
154 VIII | chickens?” asked Barbicane.~“To acclimatize them in the moon, by Jove!”~“
155 XXV | not see the necessity of acclimatizing serpents, tigers, alligators,
156 II | was quite inadequate to accommodate the crowd of savants. They
157 VI | gaseous envelope which always accompanies comets.”~“But,” continued
158 I | convenient to attend in~accordance with the present invitation.
159 X | results obtained. By last accounts, however, it would seem
160 XXV | There were indeed dangers accruing as before from the carelessness
161 VI | weight will cause it to accumulate, and we will not climb the
162 VIII | the detention of the gas accumulated behind the projectile; but
163 XXVIII| terrestrial atmosphere, by accumulating a large quantity of vapor,
164 XXVIII| his daring friends.~The accumulation of the clouds in the atmosphere
165 XXIII | Whatever its scientific accuracy was, they were at present
166 Not | instead >on producing an accurate rendition of the text. However,
167 XIV | gratuitously.”~“Do not let us accuse the sun,” said Nicholl, “
168 VII | place of earth. You see the accusing body would have followed
169 VIII | the corrosive action of acids.”~“There is no doubt about
170 XVI | sonorous waves of the immense acoustic tube, arrived with the sound
171 VII | Joseph T. Maston, began to acquire a degree of embonpoint which
172 XIII | where reading is a universal acquirement, set to work to study the
173 XIII | establishment of this fact as an acquisition to science. Now, were these
174 VIII | passion in the souls of the actors and spectators! what fire,
175 XXII | adding one or two arguments ad hominem.~“You see, old fellow,”
176 VI | terrestrial globe.”~“Good additional heat for the sun,” replied
177 III | description could give an adequate idea. What reflections it
178 VIII | house, whose stones only adhere by weight; nor a boat, whose
179 II | They overflowed into the adjoining rooms, down the narrow passages,
180 VIII | major.~The committee here adjourned for a few minutes to tea
181 X | succeed in alienating a single admirer from the president of the
182 XXIII | the hurrahs, and all the admiring vociferations of the American
183 XX | present day science generally admits that it exists.”~“Not in
184 III | the production of “Much ado about Nothing.” But the
185 XI | mythology in ancient times adorned with most graceful legends.
186 I | floats in space but never advances an inch!”~While Michel Ardan
187 XXII | allow of his trying the adventure.~Within this shell were
188 XII | once. But some days later advices were received to the effect
189 Not | enclosed in hash-marks >$ae $‘e dollar-sign preceeds
190 XIX | would tell him that the aerolites, bodies evidently formed
191 XVII | had already disappeared afar off. The distance of the
192 XIX | well as all others which affect the habitability of other
193 III | wall. Of course it was only affected by and marked the pressure
194 IX | attraction and repulsion, affecting its motion.~“I ask but one
195 II | they had left all their affections, was nothing more than a
196 V | chemically according to their affinities, formed themselves into
197 XXIII | Caustic potash has a great affinity for carbonic acid; and it
198 XIV | ordinary thermometer would afford no result under the circumstances
199 XI | although not equally rich, afforded the best conditions for
200 XVI | and even imprudence, to affront the public feeling. Barbicane,
201 XVII | incredible, occurred to rouse afresh their panting spirits, and
202 XVI | then half-past three in the afternoon. The projectile was following
203 XIX | probably be the mechanical agent?~“Yes, gentlemen,” continued
204 V | ether, my friend, is an agglomeration of imponderable atoms, which,
205 XIV | that that was enough to aggravate the most patient observers.
206 XVI | the experiment itself, the aggregate of spectators would be counted
207 XIV | Michel Ardan exclaimed, aghast.~Indeed, there was neither
208 XIX | pleased me, and the projectile agrees with me; but let us do all
209 XXI | brave. He has gone straight ahead, right into the danger,
210 IX | sixty pounds.”~“What are you aiming at?” asked the president.~“
211 XXII | took their places in the air-chamber. The commander, posted on
212 XXII | the hauling-chains, the air-chambers, and the automatic grappling-irons
213 VII | diving apparatus and an air-pump, I could have ventured out
214 XXIII | elements of the blood. In an air-tight enclosure, then, after a
215 III | silence, and his powerful alarum was worn out by its violent
216 XV | the fictitious light of alcohol impregnated with salt.~“
217 IV | your x’s and zero’s, and algebraic formula, are rattling in
218 X | and he did not succeed in alienating a single admirer from the
219 XIII | coast in the direction of Alifia Creek. This little river
220 X | the travelers should have alighted upon it, if the mischievous
221 XXIII | tables laid and all served alike. At certain hours, successively
222 XIX | Man began by walking on all-fours; then, one fine day, on
223 XII | florins, only demanding an allowance of five per cent. discount
224 VIII | Morgan, “I propose the best alloy hitherto known, which consists
225 XI | sarcasm at their adversaries.~Alluding to the extent of Florida,
226 III | seeing in that title an allusion damaging to Barbicane’s
227 XXII | above the water.~A boat came alongside, that of J. T. Maston, and
228 XIX | our rockets, in slightly altering its direction, might turn
229 XXI | raised great shouts, calling alternately Barbicane and Nicholl, neither
230 XVIII | restricted, vegetation, sudden alternations of cold and heat, her days
231 XXVIII| all eternity.~With such alternatives, what would be the fate
232 XIV | know, Michel, that, for an amateur, you are intelligent.”~“
233 VI | Yankees, they had no other ambition than to take possession
234 XIV | later.”~“I will add, to make amends,” continued Barbicane, “
235 I | of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men.~But the
236 XIX | fatal to other animals; that amphibious creatures possess a double
237 XVIII | was dressed in a suit of ample dimensions, loose neckerchief,
238 XII | Madrid, Daniel Weisweller.~At Amsterdam, Netherlands Credit Co.~
239 VIII | as they suppress pain by anaesthesia, that would change the face
240 XIX | terrestrial globe, have, upon analysis, revealed indisputable traces
241 XVIII | she has produced animals anatomically formed like the terrestrial
242 XXI | neighboring coast had no anchorage on 27@ latitude. Higher
243 XIII | Santo, where she finally anchored in a small natural harbor,
244 XVIII | a moment, “dragging his anchors,” as the sailors say, gesticulating,
245 VI | about it. According to the ancients, the Arcadians pretend that
246 XXIV | America under the name of the Andes or the Cordilleras, until
247 IV | to resolve the nebula of Andromeda, and Clarke to discover
248 VI | papers revived all the old anecdotes in which the “sun of the
249 III | was broken. An excellent aneroid was drawn from the wadded
250 V | artists like Phidias, Michael Angelo, or Raphael?”~“Yes.”~“Poets
251 VIII | s monk of the Cusine des Anges.~The two friends joined
252 XI | heart. They were measuring angles and diameters.~
253 XXIII | the bold ingenuity of the Anglo-Saxon race, no one would be astonished
254 XV | to them two centuries of anguish) the projectile seemed almost
255 XXIII | had hitherto been made in anima vili. Whatever its scientific
256 XIX | reached. What speed would then animate the projectile? They could
257 XI | over the troops of Santa Anna!— a country, in fine, which
258 XI | fine, which voluntarily annexed itself to the United States
259 XXII | projectile, and go far to annihilate altogether the effects of
260 XXIII | received with marked favor the announcement of a company, limited, with
261 XXVIII| the Cambridge Observatory, announcing that on the 11th of December
262 XXII | had to encounter all the annoyances incidental to a man of celebrity.
263 Not | aluminium”. Some of these annoyed me, in the sense of disturbing >
264 VII | acid; their gestures became annoying, they wanted so much room
265 II | itself to my mind, and it annuls the wager.”~“What is that?”
266 XII | following is the reason of this anomaly. Observers in the northern
267 XX | boldly placed himself in antagonism to their enterprise. Nobody
268 II | yourselves, worthy of the antecedents of the Gun Club; and it
269 I | the servants dozed in the antechambers, the newspapers grew mouldy
270 XIII | solve. They are certainly anterior to the formation of craters
271 II | a descendant of the old anti-Stuart Roundheads, and the implacable
272 XIV | was only visible at the antipodes, imagine to yourself the
273 III | as companion to the god Anubis, and Christians as friend
274 VII | tempered the dryness; and many apartments in London, Paris, or New
275 XII | This mountain separated the Apennines from the Carpathians. In
276 VI | she herself occupies the apex.~Regarding the altitude
277 XII | cost one thousand dollars apiece. This one of President Barbicane,
278 VII | for the amiable sister of Apollo. A very pitted face!”~But
279 XIX | must say that it is in its “aposelene” at its farthest point,
280 XIX | evidently moving toward its aposelenitical point; and Barbicane had
281 XXIII | with the same hurrahs! The apotheosis was worthy of these three
282 XXIV | call it.~Eastwards rise the Appalachians, the very highest point
283 XXVI | breech of the Columbiad.~An appalling unearthly report followed
284 XXII | into great depths. These apparatuses were at San Francisco, where
285 XIII | Has this place any local appellation?”~“It is called Stones Hill,”
286 XIX | only have found a point of application for it, they would have
287 VI | particles of a body. When they apply the brake to a train, the
288 XXV | we might expect on some appointed day?”~“Hurrah! hurrah!”
289 V | and that its heat has no appreciable effect upon the thermometer.
290 Not | in braces.~All these were appreciated! and either corrected or
291 XI | meeting a collision was to be apprehended which might have been attended
292 VI | future generations on being apprised that, according to the calculations
293 XI | to take? As regarded the appropriation of the soil, the facility
294 XIII | citrons, figs, olives, apricots, bananas, huge vines, whose
295 XIX | being crushed; that several aquatic insects, insensible to temperature,
296 XVII | supported the conduit of an aqueduct; in another part the sunken
297 XIV | groanings of that moon which the Arabic legends call “a man already
298 XXII | give you the answer which Arago borrowed from Plutarch,
299 XI | Mexico, it subtends the arc formed by the coast of Alabama,
300 VI | According to the ancients, the Arcadians pretend that their ancestors
301 V | it.”~“Scientific men like Archimedes, Euclid, Pascal, Newton?”~“
302 XVII | chefs-d’oeuvre of Selenite architecture. There was marked out the
303 XVII | which figures now in the archives of the Gun Club:~ FRANCE,
304 XIX | some of which, such as Arcturus, are billions of miles distant
305 XII | Rothschild and Son.~At Turin, Ardouin and Co.~At Berlin, Mendelssohn.~
306 II | curious spectacle. Its immense area was singularly adapted to
307 Not | confusing. The dates and times aren’t quite consistent >throughout,
308 XII | At Stockholm, Tottie and Arfuredson.~At London, N. M. Rothschild
309 XI | consisting as it did of sand and argillaceous earth.~“That may be all
310 XI | or the “clipper” of the Argonauts. So at least it was in Michel
311 III | whisky. Every one chattered, argued, discussed, disputed, applauded,
312 VIII | physiological troubles which had arisen in him, the overexcitement
313 V | Philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant?”~“I have
314 IV | remainder is only a question of arithmetic, requiring merely the knowledge
315 II | moment he was sitting in his armchair, silent, absorbed, lost
316 X | war between the guns and armor of iron-plated ships. The
317 X | themselves, after having been armor-clad against the projectiles
318 V | it.”~“Comic writers like Arnal, and photographers like—
319 I | When again shall the guns arouse us in the morning with their
320 II | blunderbuses, matchlocks, arquebuses, carbines, all kinds of
321 XV | completely to empty itself. These arrangements made, foremen and workmen
322 XI | preference.~Texas produced its array of twenty-six counties;
323 XIV | occurrence thenceforward arrested the progress of the operation;
324 I | Barbicane. Have you any arriere-pensee? Do you say to yourself, ‘
325 V | fourth class, that which is arrogantly called the Sun, all the
326 V | you believe that they have artists like Phidias, Michael Angelo,
327 XII | right, Ptolemy, Purbach, Arzachel. But the projectile was
328 XXII | compelled the divers to ascend.~The hauling in began about
329 XV | the 10th of the same month ascended the Bay of Espiritu Santo,
330 VI | consequently animated with the same ascending movement.~“What is that
331 XXII | were desirous, however, of ascertaining how this little animal,
332 Not | enclose (recursive) quotes. Ascii has no provision >for distinguishable
333 V | phenomenon known as the “ashy light,” it is explained
334 XVII | mountain of Short, equal to the Asiatic Caucasus. Michel Ardan,
335 XX | ignorant, who, besides, asks nothing better than to learn.”~“
336 II | hypothenuse,’ commonly called the ‘Ass’s Bridge’ by the French. ‘
337 XXII | deputations of all kinds which assailed him, that of “The Lunatics”
338 XVIII | the steamer was taken by assault. Barbicane was the first
339 XVIII | if you have no objection, assemble your friends, colleagues,
340 XIV | Murchison had succeeded in assembling together fifteen hundred
341 XV | Could they give a scientific assent to an observation so superficially
342 XIX | another, I should venture to assert, that if these worlds are
343 VII | which it will be proper to assign to the shot. You understand
344 III | with offers of immediate assistance and money.~From that day
345 I | inventor of a new cannon associated himself with the caster
346 XXVI | very ears, they wore an assortment of rings, shirt-pins, brooches,
347 II | the shots of the Gun Club, assortments of rammers and sponges,
348 XV | a certain speed it will assume the parabola, and with a
349 VIII | not be wanting.”~With this assurance of their president the committee
350 XX | exist, that race of beings assuredly must live without breathing,
351 XXI | adversary with respect; rest assureed if Barbicane is still alive
352 XVII | of a brilliant wheel, an asteria enclosing the disc with
353 III | excited crowd.~Nothing can astound an American. It has often
354 XVIII | PASSENGER OF THE ATLANTA~If this astounding news, instead of flying
355 IV | the sun did not change. Astronomically, it was daylight on the
356 X | without regarding these attacks.~Nicholl then took up the
357 I | will make it convenient to attend in~accordance with the present
358 XIV | gradation of light, without attenuation of the luminous waves, that
359 XXIII | the cone in a triumphant attitude. He had grown fat!~
360 VII | out and assumed fanciful attitudes of feigned monsters on the
361 VII | must be big enough to attract the attention of the inhabitants
362 XIII | orbit.~What origin do they attribute to these rifts? That is
363 II | certain indications of energy, audacity, and sang-froid.~At this
364 III | project, broke into the auditorium, smashed the benches, and
365 XX | Three hundred thousand auditors at once applauded the proposition.
366 XI | the life of man contain aught but these? and is it not
367 IX | force is again considerably augmented.”~“Will that be necessary?”
368 XX | Club, who had married an aunt of the captain and daughter
369 XIX | twelve of ours! Under such auspices and such marvelous conditions
370 II | years of age, calm, cold, austere; of a singularly serious
371 XIV | European on arriving in Australia.”~“They would make the voyage
372 XII | enjoy themselves a little.~Austria showed herself generous
373 XX | and Maedler, the two great authorities upon the moon, are quite
374 XIII | winter, spring, summer, or autumn, as in the planet Jupiter,
375 XIX | perpetual springs, summers, autumns, and winters; every Jovian
376 XVII | everything to a dead world, where avalanches, rolling from the summits
377 XIV | and humane sagacity, the average of accidents did not exceed
378 XI | address of President Barbicane averted the danger. These personal
379 XIV | mishaps are impossible to be avoided, and they are classed among
380 XV | still worked amid all this awe, they must have given themselves
381 XXIII | Jupiter to Mercury, and after awhile from one star to another,
382 VIII | and chattering.~“Ah, the awkward things!” exclaimed Michel. “
383 XIV | following its course, has awkwardly missed it. To be more just,
384 XXI | had been leveled by his axe.~Maston ran toward him,
385 VI | Why do they grease the axles of the wheels? To prevent
386 I | gunnery in America is lost!”~“Ay! and no war in prospect!”
387 V | Miletus, in the fifth century B.C., down to that of Copernicus
388 XXVI | same time. It was a perfect Babel re-enacted. All the various
389 II | he was a Yankee to the backbone.~Barbicane had made a large
390 XXII | eclipse. The celebrated Bacon always fainted during an
391 XX | atmosphere. And I may add that Baeer and Maedler, the two great
392 XIX | just this deficiency which baffled these daring mechanicians.~
393 IV | my head like nails in a bag.”~“First effects of algebra,”
394 IX | mere matter of detail, a bagatelle,” said J. T. Maston.~
395 VI | Satellite, flattened like a bagpipe without wind, and ever mounting,
396 XVIII | A.M., the semaphores of the Bahama Canal signaled a thick smoke
397 XI | both States were evenly balanced. As for political prepossessions,
398 II | do not hesitate to state, baldly, that any war which would
399 IX | professor of chemistry at Bale, proposed its employment
400 XII | stale puns and a score of ballads, in which bad taste contested
401 XIX | said Nicholl. “We have no ballast on board; and indeed it
402 XIII | figs, olives, apricots, bananas, huge vines, whose blossoms
403 VIII | whence all laws of weight are banished, you are at least going
404 XXVI | terms of absolute equality. Bankers, farmers, sailors, cotton-planters,
405 VI | elevation the star-spangled banner of the United States of
406 VIII | bringing one back to the bare reality.”~“But console yourself,
407 XXV | taken to the Columbiad by barefooted workmen, who deposited them
408 XIX | supported the captain’s baritone.~“Certainly,” said Michel
409 XXVI | Mint-julep” roars one of the barmen; “Claret sangaree!” shouts
410 XXII | entertainments wanted to exhibit him. Barnum offered him a million dollars
411 III | gentleman lounging upon the barroom settee with his tumbler
412 XX | Pure theories! which are based upon the laws of mechanics,
413 III | the ships lying in the basins, disgorged a crowd drunk
414 XVI | the 25th of September. A basket of honor took down the president,
415 XVI | this great metallic abyss. Baskets suspended from steam-cranes
416 XIX | moments after his continued bass supported the captain’s
417 XIII | dark lines forming that bastion were rows of trees regularly
418 II | formed a succession of bastions and curtains set apart for
419 X | if it was leaning over a bath of molten silver, turned
420 VII | amid this radiant ether, to bathe oneself in it, to wrap oneself
421 II | covered with dents, plates battered by the shots of the Gun
422 XXVI | the key of the electric battery, restored the current of
423 II | 1649 a Frenchman, one Jean Baudoin, published a ‘Journey performed
424 XXII | to mark the passages of bays or rivers. But, singularly
425 XV | they were able to keep it bearable.~But observations had now
426 XX | with an American “goatee” beard. Profiting by the different
427 XX | shield was heavy, but the bearers came in continuous relays,
428 XII | be surprised at this, who bears in mind the scientific taste
429 II | exclaimed Michel Ardan. “That beats the express trains of the
430 I | Armstrong, Palliser, and Beaulieu guns were compelled to bow
431 XIII | presence of the glorious beauties of this wealth of nature.
432 XX | chamber, and slid under the bedclothes, while an army of a hundred
433 III | the soup succeeded some beefsteaks, compressed by an hydraulic
434 | beforehand
435 XIV | Barbicane, after having begged light from the gas, was
436 XII | thus executed the deed on behalf of their respective principals.~
437 V | world revolves, might have beheld myriads of atoms filling
438 XII | part of the government.~Belgium distinguished herself among
439 XXI | Nicholl.~“Our friend Barbicane believes that his projectile will
440 VII | exclaimed Michel, with a bellow which provoked a sonorous
441 XVI | stone. Little by little the belt of heat contracted, until
442 XII | Hamburg, Malta, Lisbon, Benares, Madras, and others, transmitted
443 XI | over which the young girl bends; “The Lake of Dreams,” reflecting
444 III | thousand details; at one time bent over the lower glass, at
445 XIX | as Plutarch, Swedenborg, Bernardin de St. Pierre, and others
446 XIII | such a sale for works like “Bertram’s Travels in Florida,” “
447 XXIII | of spectators which had beset the peninsula of Florida,
448 | beside
449 XI | members of the Gun Club were besieged day and night by formidable
450 III | the American fashion.~The beverage was declared exquisite,
451 VII | warmth of spring. They felt bewildered. In the middle of the questions
452 XXVI | intermingled produced a bewildering and deafening hubbub.~But
453 XXI | said he, with his most bewitching smile, “this is nothing
454 III | daily, weekly, monthly, or bi-monthly, all took up the question.
455 V | observations of Halley, Nasmyth, Bianchini, Gruithuysen, and others;
456 XXIII | seize upon the acid and form bicarbonate of potassium. By these two
457 X | masterpiece of its kind, and bid defiance to all the projectiles
458 V | nothing is wanting but a billiard-table.”~“What!” exclaimed Barbicane; “
459 VI | intercepted by the earth is but a billionth part of the entire radiation.”~“
460 XXI | the rise and fall of the billows, the buoy would not sensibly
461 VIII | engine in the earth alone, binding it with hoops of wrought
462 VIII | some of that chain which binds us to her; it would be the
463 XXI | struggled to escape. The bird-catcher who had laid this snare
464 XVIII | making free with everybody, biting his nails with nervous avidity.
465 II | in order to catch stray bits of news from the interior.~
466 XI | time to hurl one last and bitter sarcasm at their adversaries.~
467 XXVI | mass of these persons had bivouacked round the enclosure, and
468 XVII | friends were obliged to blacken their glasses with the gas
469 XIV | the stars. It was “that blackness” in which the lunar nights
470 XVI | discontent, murmurs; they blamed the president, taxed him
471 XVII | distance the summits of Blancanus, and at about half-past
472 XVII | feet. It is a group of Mont Blancs, placed round one common
473 II | his notebook, tore out a blank leaf, wrote a proper receipt
474 XXVI | roar of thunder, or the blast of volcanic explosions!
475 XV | ventilators added their continuous blasts and saturated with oxygen
476 IX | opposite, the orb of day blazed with fire.~Their situation
477 XVII | travelers once more entered the blessed rays of the sun. They saw
478 II | the rush of blood; he was blind; he was a drunken man.~“
479 XIV | temperature. Now we are blinded with light and saturated
480 IX | disc, the lower window was blocked up; thus it was impossible
481 XXI | They expected to find a bloodthirsty man, happy in his revenge.~
482 XIII | bananas, huge vines, whose blossoms and fruits rivaled each
483 XXVI | white hats and Panamas, blue-cotton trousers, light-colored
484 VIII | very disastrous? A simple blunder of Michel’s, which, fortunately,
485 II | cast-iron lacework. Trophies of blunderbuses, matchlocks, arquebuses,
486 XX | morning. We cannot say what blundering systems were broached, what
487 VIII | in the system. Michel had blunderingly opened the tap of the apparatus
488 XI | Well! and why need we blush for that? Was not Louisiana
489 IV | reassemble his colleagues in the board-room of the Gun Club. There,
490 XVIII | was, in fact, a thorough Bohemian, adventurous, but not an
491 XV | power, such as cannon, steam boilers, hydraulic presses, and
492 XXIII | a jolly voice shouting a boisterous hurrah.~Presently afterward
493 XVIII | was fain at last to make a bolt for his cabin.~Barbicane
494 XIV | kind of circle strongly bolted together, and of immense
495 VII | somersaults like those of the boneless clowns in the circus. Diana,
496 XII | of spelikans, let us put bones. This plain, would then
497 VI | projectile with useful objects, books, instruments, tools, etc.
498 IX | stove in if he had not been boom-proof.~This incident terminated
499 I | striking it on the sole of his boot; and approached the burner
500 I | with the caster and the borer. Thus was formed the nucleus
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