Chapter

 1 Pre  |            that the gun should be a Columbiad cast in iron, 900 feet long,
 2 Pre  |          stupendous labor, that the Columbiad was cast with full success.
 3 Pre  |          detonation produced by the Columbiad, had the immediate effect
 4 Pre  |          projectile launched by the Columbiad of Stones Hill had been
 5 Pre  |          been the projectile of the Columbiad. Second, errors of theory
 6 I    |           outside, the mouth of the Columbiad was instantly disencumbered
 7 I    | communicates with the charge of the Columbiad. At that precise moment
 8 I    |      successful, and lastly, as the Columbiad has been loaded without
 9 I    |           four thousand because the Columbiad will not burst, and five
10 I    |             you gain the first, the Columbiad will have burst, and the
11 II   |        thousand dollars because the Columbiad did not burst; five thousand
12 II   |          hear the detonation of the Columbiad?”~For want of an answer
13 II   |          hear the detonation of the Columbiad.”~“And it is——?” said Nicholl.~“
14 IV   |        ought to have on leaving the Columbiad in order to attain the moon.”~“
15 VII  |            counsel together. If the Columbiad is not there, the projectile
16 VII  |         They could have trebled the Columbiad’s charge; they could have
17 VII  |          what is easier? Is not the Columbiad still buried in the soil
18 IX   |          all precautions taken, the Columbiad was not fairly pointed.
19 X    |          the bottom of the enormous Columbiad, pointed perpendicularly
20 XIX  |            it left the mouth of the Columbiad, a speed of 16,000 yards
21 XX   |         they will try it again. The Columbiad is still sunk in the soil
22 XXI  |      morning, the projectile of the Columbiad fell into the Pacific. Send
23 XXIII|        heroes from the mouth of the Columbiad?~Thus they sped from one