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501 III | pie, which silenced her complaints. As to Satellite, he seemed
502 XVIII| question, an indispensable complement of the first. I ask the
503 XX | sounding-line was not yet completed; 1,670 fathoms were still
504 XX | operation is nearing its completion,” replied Lieutenant Bronsfield. “
505 XX | turned in, not without having complimented his servant upon his making
506 XII | nature. Are these plains composed of arid sand, as the first
507 Pre | at which the shape and composition of the projectile were discussed,
508 XXI | meeting; and, with that composure which distinguishes learned
509 XII | features. Copernicus is comprised in the series of ringed
510 VII | worthy and a courageous comrade. Besides, what is easier?
511 II | never dream of. One may conceive the interest with which
512 Pre | after the American war, conceived the idea of putting themselves
513 XVII | moon!~Tycho forms such a concentration of light that the inhabitants
514 XV | shifted by following an almost concentric curve.~This point of mark
515 II | were rings of clouds placed concentrically round the terrestrial globe.~
516 IX | projectile’s impulsive force was concerned; its own speed would carry
517 Pre | errors of observation, concerning the distance of the projectile
518 VIII | mixed themselves up in our concert?”~“Those chickens?”~“Yes.”~
519 XXI | observations of Long’s Peak, concluded that the commander of the
520 VIII | always enthusiastic, drew conclusions which were purely fanciful.~“
521 XXI | telegraph office through a concourse of spectators. Blomsberry
522 XIII | length passed. The mounts of Condamine and Fontenelle remained—
523 XIX | thing. The laws of physics condemned it to pass through every
524 XVI | incessantly encrusted by the condensation of vapor.~About forty-five
525 XIV | steam of the interior is condensing on the glasses of the scuttles.
526 XXI | The officer of the port conducted them to the telegraph office
527 XVII | must have supported the conduit of an aqueduct; in another
528 XX | corvette Susquehanna had been confided the first operations of
529 VII | the orb of night with a confident and joyous hurrah.~The moon
530 XII | discovering the secrets of her configuration.~
531 XVIII| personal observations only confirm me in this opinion. I believe,
532 XV | scattering of an immense conflagration. Thousands of luminous fragments
533 XI | They remind one of the confusion in the islands of the Sound,
534 II | lost,” said Nicholl.~“I congratulate you,” replied Ardan.~“Here
535 XV | by the intersection of a conic surface and a plane parallel
536 VI | inexhaustible matters of conjecture.~As they were breakfasting,
537 XX | of a submarine cable to connect the Hawaiian Islands with
538 XXI | perfect desert, it was not connected with the interior by a network
539 XXIII| the Union, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont,
540 XX | artillery, and cavalry, to conquer the lunar world.~At one
541 XXIII| a banquet worthy of the conquerors, worthy of the American
542 XXIII| advance objections against conscientious observers, who at less than
543 XII | upon them during fifteen consecutive days.”~“The Selenites are
544 XVIII| habitable.’”~This decision was consigned by President Barbicane to
545 XX | borders, and a complete army, consisting of infantry, artillery,
546 XIX | A revolution not at all consoling,” said Michel, “to pass
547 XIV | stand mute, watching the constellated firmament, upon which the
548 XXI | secretary of the Gun Club constituted a permanent danger for the
549 XV | parallel to its axis, and constitutes two branches separated one
550 XXII | they had been used in the construction of a submarine breakwater;
551 II | Had the ingenuity of the constructors of the projectile obtained
552 XXI | straight to San Francisco, and consult as to the means of raising
553 XV | temperature obliged them to consume a certain quantity. Strictly
554 III | months. They necessarily consumed a certain quantity of gas,
555 XVII | the air apparatus alone consuming its usual quantity.~“Ah!”
556 XIV | was changed into ice upon contact with the glass, preventing
557 III | floor several receivers containing caustic potash, which he
558 V | dabblers in figures which it contains.”~Suddenly a thought struck
559 XVII | admiration, they gazed, they contemplated. All their feelings, all
560 XIII | ramparts. Thus it may be that, contemporary with the later geological
561 VII | his companions, Barbicane contented himself with constantly
562 XVII | the fact can no longer be contested.” No, it could not be. And
563 V | I have provided for the contingency, my friends,” replied Michel; “
564 VI | brought forward his own contingent of particular facts; Barbicane
565 XV | cloudiness had to be dispersed continually. In any case they might
566 XIV | the scuttles. If the fall continues, the vapor of our breath
567 XXIII| abyss of Pluto’s circle? How contradict those bold ones whom the
568 XXI | s dispatch, so decidely contradicting J. T. Maston’s telegram,
569 XXI | And at these moments, when contradictions rained like hail, the well-known
570 VII | unaccountable intoxication, was very contradictory.~“Who said that there were
571 XIII | Hence the harshness of contrasts, which only admit of two
572 IX | himself with placing the contrivances intended to break their
573 XIII | deep circle which can be conveniently studied from the earth,
574 IV | It is a calculation the converse of the differential,” replied
575 VII | like a disc, showed its convexity. If the sun’s rays had struck
576 XIX | facts already observed, a conviction which his two friends shared
577 V | brows, and hands clasped convulsively, was watching through the
578 III | Frenchman, was declared chief cook, an important function,
579 I | positions with the most perfect coolness. They were like two methodical
580 XXIII| amounted to five millions of copies. Three days after the return
581 VII | escaped like a champagne cork driven out by carbonic acid;
582 III | it had remained in the corner till its voice returned
583 II | metal coffin, bearing three corpses into space?~Some minutes
584 XV | these stars, or rather corpuscles, only shine when they are
585 VIII | impulsive force had been correctly calculated, it would attain
586 XIV | without their accustomed cortege of rays, felt a vague uneasiness
587 II | effect as two bottles of Corton, though perhaps less agreeable
588 XV | impatient.~“Now, gentlemen cosines, will you cease to throw
589 VII | cuttings of the Medoc and Cote d’Or, upon which he founded
590 III | the earth, houses, towns, cottages, and country feel every
591 VII | the soil of Florida? Is cotton and nitric acid wanted wherewith
592 XV | x. Their arguments were couched in language which made Michel
593 XXI | permission,” was holding a council. They must decide upon something
594 VII | to return, we will take counsel together. If the Columbiad
595 I | an hour you will have to count nine thousand dollars to
596 I | the electric apparatus, is counting the seconds preparatory
597 VII | walking through its unknown countries, climbing its highest peaks,
598 XV | describe it. In spite of their courage, their sang-froid, their
599 XX | Captain Jonathan Blomsberry (cousin-german of Colonel Blomsberry, one
600 III | windows and the lower glass coverlid.~There was the same view.
601 V | replied Barbicane, “the sea covers five-sixths of our globe.
602 XVII | holes, and leveling all cracks. But no trace of vegetation,
603 XVIII| inherent in our satellite might cramp the expansion of the animal
604 III | and then he climbed up by cramp-irons riveted to the walls, but
605 XII | celebrated mathematician, these crater-like cavities had been dug by
606 XV | smiling. They had just been creating “art for art’s sake.” Never
607 V | least favored animals in creation; they are not only beaten
608 XVII | a star launched by the Creator’s hand, and crushed against
609 IV | you hold your tongue? That creature will spoil my design!”~But
610 XVII | craters, circles, a network of crests; then, as far as the eye
611 V | unless it sped into some crevasse at that period when the
612 XVII | canter of this region of crevasses, the most splendid mountain
613 XXII | shudder ran through the whole crew. That flag was the American
614 XI | Fruitfulness;” “The Sea of Crises;” then the “Sea of Vapors,”
615 III | uniformly decreasing speed was crossing the sky.~
616 XXII | on the main-top-gallant crosstrees, watching the sea, cried
617 III | found one of the animals crouched under the divan. Terrified
618 IV | unexpected noise; it was the crowing of a cock which sounded
619 V | Cambridge Observatory and crush it, together with the whole
620 XVII | have kept their first form. Crystallized by cooling, they have stereotyped
621 III | sufficient heat for the culinary apparatus, and the provision
622 VII | colonize the lunar regions; to cultivate them, to people them, to
623 IV | word.”~“Then you are as cunning as our president.”~“No,
624 III | and was followed by some cups of tea with bread and butter,
625 XVII | lunar orography, one of the curiosities of this continent. It was
626 XXI | bowsprit broken, public curiosity was greatly roused. A dense
627 XVI | forever closed against human curiousity!~It was then half-past three
628 XVIII| celebrated mountain shed so curiously over the horizon.~What was
629 XX | valley worn by Humboldt’s current, which skirts the coast
630 XVIII| attributed their brilliancy to currents of lava congealed by the
631 XXI | deception, when, trusting to a cursory observation, they launched
632 II | silvery reflections. The black curtain of the firmament in reality
633 XIII | line; others were slightly curved, though still keeping their
634 XVI | projectile was following its curvilinear direction round the moon.
635 III | stretched comfortably on a cushion. Once there, he heaved a
636 VIII | like Murillo’s monk of the Cusine des Anges.~The two friends
637 XXI | Bronsfield entered an eight-pared cutter, which soon brought them
638 VII | collection some precious cuttings of the Medoc and Cote d’
639 XXIII| reconstructed the lunar world as Cuvier did the skeleton of a fossil,
640 II | darkness was profound. But its cylindro- conical partitions had resisted
641 III | destiny will be marked in the cynegetic annals; thou whom the pagans
642 XI | got up by a Scudary or a Cyrano de Bergerac. “Only,” said
643 XX | director, the intelligent Cyrus Field, purposed even covering
644 V | together with the whole lot of dabblers in figures which it contains.”~
645 II | has some notion of that daily operation. Rub, Nicholl;
646 III | other arms had not been damaged. These were important, because,
647 XIX | top of the towers of Notre Dame, the height of which is
648 XV | become very difficult. the dampness of the projectile was condensed
649 XI | wonderfully difficult and dangerous; and we may well pity the
650 XVII | name of the illustrious Danish astronomer.~In observing
651 XIV | tried to see through the darkened scuttles by extinguishing
652 XIII | would shine to him as on the darkest night. Judge of the impression
653 II | proper receipt in pencil, dated and signed it with the usual
654 XX | aunt of the captain and daughter of an honorable Kentucky
655 VIII | electric light.~A revelation dawned on Nicholl’s mind. That
656 XIII | creates the twilight and the daybreak, which produces the umbrae
657 IX | this efficient means of deadening the shock of arrival. Happily,
658 XX | itself in the waves with a deafening roar!~A few feet nearer,
659 XIX | of the Gun Club, and the dearest of all, J. T. Maston. At
660 Pre | from them? These questions, debated by the most learned pens
661 XVII | spectacle then, and now what decay! This moon is nothing more
662 XI | victory. Then, worn out by deceit, treasons, infidelity, and
663 XXII | the whole submarine plain, deceived at every turn by optical
664 XXI | delight succeeded a great deception, when, trusting to a cursory
665 XVIII| earth?”~“No!” said Barbicane decidedly, “but a world which has
666 XXI | Blomsberry’s dispatch, so decidely contradicting J. T. Maston’
667 II | will give us the means of deciding what our position in space
668 XVIII| is not habitable.’”~This decision was consigned by President
669 XIII | borders were formed of steep declivities; they were long parallel
670 XV | necessarily.~The volcano, by the decomposition of certain substances, can
671 XXIII| with the same flags, and decorated with the same ornaments,
672 VII | felt how their speed had decreased. It would have seemed to
673 XI | The right hemisphere, “dedicated to the ladies,” encloses
674 V | understood that the president was deducting from the terrestrial diameter
675 VIII | some pieces of artillery to defend oneself.”~“Good,” replied
676 XXII | ocean, this metal prison defied every effort of its prisoners.~
677 XVII | storm, watching heights defile under their feet, piercing
678 XIII | cause. All lunar relief was defiling under the eyes of the travelers,
679 XV | the word you pretend to define.”~Nicholl and Barbicane
680 XV | particularly like in your definition of the hyperbola (I was
681 XVIII| and whose formation and deformation have been more rapid. Relatively,
682 III | produced in the famous Grotto del Cane, had collected at the
683 III | become charged with this deleterious gas. Nicholl discovered
684 XX | to bring to a close his delicate operations of sounding.
685 VI | consideration. Thus let <lower case delta> be the horizontal parallel,
686 V | where is the projectile? I demand to see the projectile.”~“
687 VIII | highest degree. He got up and demanded from Michel a supplementary
688 XIII | projectile passed the line of demarcation between intense light and
689 XXIII| have placed in the rank of demigods.~And now will this attempt,
690 V | Nicholl made a gesture of denial.~“But I have provided for
691 II | wonderfully. Not a rent or a dent anywhere! The wonderful
692 VIII | in themselves.~Fancy has depicted men without reflection,
693 XIV | unfortunate meteor which has so deplorably altered our first direction.”~“
694 X | outline of those immense depressions inappropriately called “
695 Pre | exposes himself justly to the derision of the mass. Far better
696 VIII | supplement to life it would derive. From an exhausted nation
697 V | Philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant?”~“I have no doubt
698 IV | That creature will spoil my design!”~But Nicholl and Barbicane
699 XVII | imagination could supply to designate it by. To him this Tycho
700 XIV | has no moon (applying this designation to our globe) but on one
701 XI | dream, every unsatisfied desire is at length absorbed, and
702 XIV | dispelling the darkness. However desirous Barbicane might be to husband
703 XIX | and after having so much despaired, I may say I think we shall
704 VIII | surprised and stupefied, despite their scientific reasonings.
705 XV | heat. If thought was not destroyed within them, if their brains
706 XV | to this time resisted all destructive influences? The existence
707 Pre | of Stones Hill had been detected by Messrs. Belfast and Maston—
708 XXI | projectile’s fall.~This determination was unanimous. The choice
709 II | air would have produced a detonating mixture, and the explosion
710 VI | Barbicane, “the fall would develop a heat equal to that produced
711 XIV | we know— the earth which developes itself at a diameter of
712 XVIII| seem propitious to animal development, nor sufficient for the
713 VII | strange excitement, they were devoting to him their best thoughts.~
714 V | given to the dog, which devoured it hungrily.~“Do you see,
715 XI | waters from the “Gulf of Dew!” Clouds, rain, storms,
716 III | figures with unparalleled dexterity. Michel Ardan chatted first
717 XIV | bathed in limpid ether. Its diamonds set in the heavenly vault
718 III | s surface, thanks to the difference of bulk. The inspection
719 IV | calculation the converse of the differential,” replied Barbicane seriously.~“
720 IV | practical man equal to all difficulties, began to write with frightful
721 XVIII| radiation. Light, like heat, can diffuse itself in the air; hence
722 XII | of these circles, for the digging of them would have been
723 XXII | But in spite of all the diligence displayed in preparing the
724 II | enormous disc, whose colossal dimension could not be estimated.
725 VII | whose speed was evidently diminishing, though insensibly to themselves.
726 XIV | thirteen times greater than the diminutive moon that we know— the earth
727 XVI | distributed, under the name of dinner, some pieces of bread and
728 XIX | replied Michel Ardan, directing a lighted match to the flame
729 XVII | all proofs become white— a disagreeable fact: for this strange region
730 II | of high mountains, often disappearing behind thick spots, which
731 XIV | attractions have drawn it to? The disappointment of the travelers in the
732 VII | been slightly altered. The discharge, mathematically calculated,
733 Pre | When a purely speculative discovery is announced to the public,
734 II | hour. But Michel Ardan, disdaining scientific reasonings, preferred
735 XV | action!” cried Nicholl; “a disemboweling of the interior fires of
736 I | Columbiad was instantly disencumbered of its last supports.~Nicholl,
737 III | amiable Michel) succeeded the dish of meat; and was followed
738 XXII | result, nor the 26th.~It was disheartening. They thought of those unfortunates
739 XVII | Beneath it he discerned the dismantled ramparts of a town; here
740 XXI | and eighty feet! Belfast, dismayed, rushed to the orifice of
741 II | interior showed but little disorder; indeed, only a few objects
742 VIII | state producing the gravest disorders in the system. Michel had
743 XIV | Hence the necessity of dispelling the darkness. However desirous
744 XXII | spite of all the diligence displayed in preparing the different
745 XV | but, to Barbicane’s great displeasure, the curve which the projectile
746 V | Barbicane did not fear to dispose of the rubbish which encumbered
747 XII | And why this peculiar disposition?” asked Nicholl.~“We do
748 XXI | discussions and violent disputes between them, Belfast affirming
749 VIII | earth and the moon. As it distanced the earth, the terrestrial
750 XVII | there, and all who have a distaste for social life!”~“All!
751 VII | that ardent sun, ought to distill even more generous wines;
752 III | generous wine which he had distilled on the slopes of Burgundy,
753 XIII | some parts green was very distinct, such as springs, according
754 XXI | with that composure which distinguishes learned bodies in general,
755 V | Michel, “and not only to distract ourselves, but also with
756 XX | by degrees. There was no disturbance in the air. The pennant
757 XIX | them, when he was roughly disturbed by a cry from Michel Ardan.~“
758 V | endowing the Selenite smoking divans with them.”~“My friend,”
759 VII | long, for in spite of your diver’s dress, swollen by the
760 XIII | distinguish on the globe a greater diversity of shades between the oceans
761 XIX | of the rockets could not divert its course. This speed in
762 VII | of furnishing us with a diving apparatus and an air-pump,
763 XXII | He was ready to don the diving-dress himself, or try the air
764 XXII | it in its powerful claws. Diving-dresses were also prepared, which
765 IV | with frightful rapidity. Divisions and multiplications grew
766 XIV | projectile with exemplary docility; and a quarter of an hour
767 IX | I would not give half a dollar to know it. That we have
768 VIII | themselves being carried into the domain of wonders! they felt that
769 V | couple of every kind of domestic animal.”~“I dare say; but
770 I | ourselves at home; I am a domesticated man and strong in housekeeping.
771 VII | the popular song “Yankee Doodle,” while from the congress
772 XXI | crushed each other at the door.~Some minutes later a fourfold
773 X | hemisphere presented vast plains, dotted with isolated mountains.~
774 VII | uneasiness would have been doubled had they felt how their
775 XII | Sea of Clouds” is rather doubtfully marked out upon the maps.
776 XV | hemisphere, which would doubtlessly have ended the journey much
777 XIX | exclaimed, “I must admit we are down-right simpletons!”~“I do not say
778 XIII | could never have worn such drains for themselves; and, on
779 Pre | here related in its most dramatic as well as in its most singular
780 V | speak, and I have chess, draughts, cards, and dominoes at
781 XXIII| commissioner, and Francis Drayton, magistrate, were nominated
782 II | travelers drew back. Their dread was great, but it did not
783 XI | girl bends; “The Lake of Dreams,” reflecting a joyous future; “
784 VII | in spite of your diver’s dress, swollen by the expansion
785 XIII | are the ancient beds of dried-up rivers; for, on one side,
786 XIII | unfathomable and gloomy, drilled into the lunar soil.~This
787 VIII | before his companions, and, drinking merrily, they saluted the
788 III | wonderful purity, enough to drive an astronomer out of his
789 VII | escaped like a champagne cork driven out by carbonic acid; their
790 II | speed. Then an irresistible drowsiness crept over their brain.
791 V | they make their skins into drums.”~Barbicane and Nicholl
792 VIII | sober over their oxygen as a drunkard does over his wine.~When
793 VIII | disconcerted. This unexpected drunkenness broke the monotony of the
794 VII | with the air tempered the dryness; and many apartments in
795 XV | this time the disc remained dumb and dark. It did not answer
796 XI | while Franklin, Ross, Kane, Dumont, d’Urville, and Lambert
797 II | said Nicholl, putting his ear to the chest of the wounded
798 XX | took a brandy-grog, which earned for the steward no end of
799 VII | uttered in his honor, his ears at least tingled. What was
800 VIII | amazement on seeing these earthly-winged animals pecking in your
801 VIII | hunger, as if he had not eaten anything for several days.
802 IV | Ah, there you are, you eaters of x^1; you think you have
803 III | the kitchen of an English eating-house. Michel, who was imaginative,
804 XV | accustomed darkness; the stars, eclipsed for a moment, again twinkled
805 II | brilliant light. Nicholl, as an economical man, put out the gas, now
806 XV | important as it was to economize the gas, the excessive lowness
807 III | receive light and heat. It economizes the gas, which is in every
808 XIV | of the many reasons for economizing, Barbicane, after having
809 XIII | lunar parallel and at the effective distance of five hundred
810 IX | must therefore give up this efficient means of deadening the shock
811 Pre | still alive) uniting their efforts with the lunar attraction
812 X | appeared like a gigantic egg, with the small end turned
813 IV | incomprehensible than the Egyptian Ibis, you can find what
814 XVIII| distances, is inexplicable.”~“Eh! by Jove!” replied Michel
815 XXI | Lieutenant Bronsfield entered an eight-pared cutter, which soon brought
816 III | pure Selenites.”~“In about eighty-eight hours,” replied the captain.~“
817 XVII | extended from the pole to the eighty-fourth parallel, on the eastern
818 VIII | foot high.”~“Lilliputians!” ejaculated Michel; “I shall play the
819 XIX | twelve; and two days must elapse before its crescent, freed
820 XXI | of telegraphic wires, and electricity alone could spread these
821 IX | the first days the liquid element should be found wanting
822 XX | was then ten at night. The eleventh day of the month of December
823 XXIII| received as the prophet Elias would be if he came back
824 X | of the earth, it became elongated under the influence of gravitation.
825 XV | And through a luminous emanation, which lasted some seconds,
826 XX | notes, and Michel Ardan embalming the lunar solitudes with
827 II | projectile, would have much embarrassed us, will give us the means
828 V | a piteous tone, “that is embarrassing. I much fear, my poor Diana,
829 VII | began to acquire a degree of embonpoint which would have rendered
830 I | companions were united in a last embrace.~“God preserve us!” said
831 XI | absorbed, and whose waves emerge peacefully into the “Lake
832 XX | earth’s inhabitants would emigrate to the moon!”~This conversation
833 III | reflections it suggested! What emotions hitherto unknown awoke in
834 III | choicest leaves, of which the emperor of Russia had given some
835 VII | with the Selenites!”~“The empire of the moon belongs to us,”
836 I | Twenty-six minutes well employed are worth more than twenty-six
837 IX | Barbicane, not content with employing water, had furnished the
838 XVII | of this crater flat and empty. It possessed its own peculiar
839 VII | atmosphere, and water-courses emptying the mountain tributaries.
840 XX | see my brave countrymen encamped at the bottom of some valley,
841 XVII | No system of terrestrial encampment could equal these natural
842 I | for the moment when we are encased to make this deplorable
843 XVIII| projectile had passed the enceinte of Tycho, and Barbicane
844 XI | dedicated to the ladies,” encloses smaller seas, whose significant
845 XVI | have thought of such an encounter with meteors? These erring
846 III | persuasion, Michel Ardan encouraging her with most gracious words.~“
847 XII | oblique.~“But how have they endeavored to explain these lines of
848 XIX | the projectile was then endowed with too great a speed.”~“
849 V | the laudable intention of endowing the Selenite smoking divans
850 XIV | temperature was no longer endurable. Its tenants would have
851 XIII | depths of the circle of Endymion, to the east of the “Cold
852 II | excited, Barbicane’s moral energy triumphed over physical
853 XXI | scuttles, at the same time enforcing his argument by a series
854 Pre | pens of the day, strongly engrossed the public attention.~It
855 XIV | now float does not even enjoy during its long night any
856 VI | through the scuttle? What enjoyment it would be to feel oneself
857 XIII | Barbicane immediately enlightened his companion as to what
858 III | an old French refrain to enliven the situation.~Barbicane
859 XIX | astronomers’ language is enriched, if the projectile remains
860 Pre | took all necessary means to ensure the success of this extraordinary
861 XX | were still out, which would entail some hours’ work. According
862 XIV | leaves our bodies briskly or enters briskly, it is exactly the
863 VII | returning: we have already entertained it too long. As to communicating
864 XXII | ingenuity of the savants entrusted with the use of them, the
865 XIV | companion, and continued to enumerate the advantages reserved
866 XIII | with the later geological epochs, they are due to the expansion
867 XVII | surrounding plain was far from equaling the depth of its crater.
868 XIII | every latitude. Above the equatorial regions the radiant orb
869 II | Another effort restored his equilibrium. He succeeded in rising,
870 XIV | reason of the succession of equinoxes, will resign their part
871 XVIII| kind of moraines, rows of erratic blocks, which had been thrown
872 XXI | first telegram to the world, erroneously affirming that the projectile
873 XII | one instant two or three eruptive cones, like enormous dazzling
874 IX | is another reason, but it escapes me.”~“Are we not arriving
875 III | tools which were Nicholl’s especial choice; as to the sacks
876 XIV | amid the cold, like the Esquimaux of the north pole. No, indeed!
877 V | Pouillet, another savant, estimates the temperature of space
878 XIX | Barbicane had no means of estimating the projectile’s speed,
879 | etc
880 XIX | will be identified with eternal wisdom!”~“In fact,” interrupted
881 Pre | around the lunar disc to all eternity.~With such alternatives,
882 VII | him? What am I saying? to etherize him, as here ether takes
883 XVII | eruptions of Vesuvius and Etna, we find them little more
884 V | Scientific men like Archimedes, Euclid, Pascal, Newton?”~“I could
885 XIV | yourself the astonishment of a European on arriving in Australia.”~“
886 XIV | degrees. This heat was rapidly evaporating into space by radiation,
887 I | alone separate us from an eventful moment. One clasp of the
888 XIII | shoulders.~“Plowed, at all events,” retorted Michel Ardan; “
889 Pre | of errors, as was proved eventually. First, errors of observation,
890 VIII | the earth, and fall with ever-increasing speed on to the surface
891 XXII | whose confidence gained over everybody, “our friends are clever
892 | everyone
893 | Everywhere
894 XVII | accustomed ardor, maintained “the evidences” of his fortress. Beneath
895 VIII | move, for the projectile’s evolution will be imperceptible.”~“
896 V | Barbicane, “it was greatly exagerated; but now, after the calculations
897 I | other. Then they began to examine the objects imprisoned with
898 V | of gun-cotton, must have exceeded the required 12,000 yards.
899 XIII | latitude, at a distance not exceeding 40 miles. Through the glasses
900 XII | arrangement, and one without an exception on the lunar disc, is that
901 X | circumstance; and unless by some exceptional event, they could now never
902 III | represented French loquacity and excitability, and we beg you to believe
903 XIII | Barbicane quickly.~“Do not excite yourself, my worthy president,”
904 XIII | usual readiness, hastened to exclaim:~“Look there! cultivated
905 VI | and suddenly they heard an exclamation of surprise!~“What is it?”
906 XXII | persist, and in spite of the exclamations of the worthy secretary,
907 XVII | toward it, and the interior excrescences of its crater, photography
908 XXI | passed their existence, execrating the day which hid the moon
909 XIV | follows the projectile with exemplary docility; and a quarter
910 VII | whole evening could not exhaust.~Besides, the excitement
911 VIII | it would derive. From an exhausted nation they might make a
912 III | lunar disc might perhaps exhibit some strange phenomena.
913 II | revolved upon its axis, and exhibited the phenomena of all celestial
914 III | previous evening; but its expanse was still enormous, compared
915 XV | visited it in our exploring expeditions on the lunar globe. So that
916 XV | little, and without much expenditure they were able to keep it
917 XIV | it a fictitious light, an expensive brilliancy which the sun
918 XXII | at that moment they were experiencing the first approach of suffocation;
919 XV | passed their time making experiments, as if they had been quietly
920 III | carbonic acid produced by expiration. During the last twelve
921 VI | my worthy friend; for it explains every phenomenon of caloric.
922 VI | exclaimed Michel.~“Why that expletive?” asked Barbicane.~“Because
923 XXII | above the bottom.~Thus they explored the whole submarine plain,
924 XV | could have visited it in our exploring expeditions on the lunar
925 Pre | a mistake in such a case exposes himself justly to the derision
926 III | The beverage was declared exquisite, and was due to the infusion
927 XVII | occupied the eastern border, extending from the 65° of latitude
928 III | loaded with things which the extravagant Frenchman had heaped up.
929 XV | might be disastrous in the extreme.~Suddenly, in the midst
930 XIII | He was, therefore, under extremely favorable conditions for
931 XV | through their half-open eyelids upon that asteroid heated
932 VIII | his moral and quarrelsome faculties— he understood all.~“The
933 XVIII| the moon: the lineaments faded away from the travelers’
934 II | The instrument showed 81° Fahr.~“Yes,” he exclaimed, “yes,
935 XIX | round an attracting body fails in this law. Every orbit
936 XIV | night of watching it is fair to build ourselves up a
937 IX | taken, the Columbiad was not fairly pointed. An error, however
938 XII | great exactness; and they faithfully reproduced the different
939 VI | projectile as with a ball which falls in a burning state after
940 III | boxes, singing in one of the falsest of voices an old French
941 XI | in thus interpreting the fancies of the ancient astronomers?
942 VII | existed. In any case, the far-seeing Frenchman had taken care
943 III | butter, after the American fashion.~The beverage was declared
944 XXI | spread these important news fast enough.~Some degrees above
945 II | strengthened with upper fastenings, closed it tightly. Beneath
946 VII | coop; they were getting fat.~In looking through the
947 X | the projectile. It was a fatality. The bold attempt had miscarried
948 XIII | opening. There was an abyss to fathom, perhaps some mysterious
949 XXII | longer animated by either fauna or flora. By the light of
950 XIV | allow that the astronomers Faye, Charconac, and Secchi,
951 III | the elements of this first feast.~The breakfast began with
952 XII | recognize perfectly its chief features. Copernicus is comprised
953 XII | one day by useful to our fellow-men. Let us keep our minds free
954 VII | his foot as if he was in a fencing saloon; “I do not know.”~“
955 XX | went well, and with all the fervor of a Presbyterian, he did
956 XI | of Rains,” fed by all the fever of existence. Near this
957 XXII | the waves.~All looked with feverish anxiety, but in silence.
958 II | if they had fallen from a fifth story on their heads. Bah!”
959 XIII | morning, at the height of the fiftieth parallel, the distance was
960 II | Michel. Listen to me. It is fifty-five minutes past ten; we have
961 XI | Storms,” where man is ever fighting against his passions, which
962 II | purity. Her rays, no longer filtered through the vapory atmosphere
963 XXII | Maston did not doubt of their final success, but his companions,
964 VI | there are eclipses, the moon finds itself beyond the cone of
965 II | octant, and showed a crescent finely traced on the dark background
966 XVII | lay extended one of the finest circles of lunar orography,
967 I | fixed on the needle, his finger on the electric apparatus,
968 IV | multiplications grew under his fingers; the figures were like hail
969 VIII | immediately divers other objects, firearms and bottles, abandoned to
970 XVI | expansion, since this inimitable firework, which no Ruggieri could
971 II | temples, he called in a firm voice:~“Nicholl! Barbicane!”~
972 XVIII| said Michel Ardan.~“I firmly believe that at the period
973 XXI | we do?” they exclaimed.~“Fish up the projectile,” replied
974 XXII | which it was plunged.~But fishing-up the projectile was not the
975 VII | followed the capricious fissures which wound through the
976 XX | Selenites had instruments fit for taking distant observations
977 V | Barbicane, “the sea covers five-sixths of our globe. From that
978 II | the shock at all; their fixtures were intact.~On the movable
979 XXIII| platforms, lined with the same flags, and decorated with the
980 III | nebulous masses like large flakes of starry snow; and from
981 XV | asteroids in their turn, some flaming like a sword, some surrounded
982 XVII | interior and exterior sloping flanks rose in stories like gigantic
983 XVI | glory of the moon. In that flash, continents, seas, and forests
984 III | Diana, come here.”~Diana, flattered or not, advanced by degrees,
985 IX | inopportunely. To face it without flinching, one must be a resolute
986 XIII | in which the projectile floated no fluid interposed itself
987 IX | orb of night on the other, flooded the projectile with light.~
988 XXII | animated by either fauna or flora. By the light of their lamps,
989 II | signed it with the usual flourish, [1] and gave it to the
990 IX | Inside, these guns were flush with the bottom; outside,
991 VII | while five or six hens fluttered like bats against the walls.~
992 VIII | is true that in order to fly on the earth’s surface,
993 XIX | always occupies one of the foci; so that at one moment the
994 XVII | To him this Tycho was a focus of light, a center of irradiation,
995 XIX | out, and his great arms folded under his head, Michel slept
996 XIII | mounts of Condamine and Fontenelle remained— one on the right,
997 XVIII| mountains.”~“That Nasmyth was no fool!” replied Michel.~Long did
998 XV | Barbicane and Nicholl could not forbear smiling. They had just been
999 XX | half-dressed, and rushing on to the forecastle-deck, whither all the officers
1000 Pre | be realized, that which foresaw the case of the travelers (
1001 XXIII| American temperament to foresee everything in business,
1002 IX | of science thought he had foreseen the only three hypotheses
1003 XVII | all shadows disappear, the foreshortening of perspective disappears,
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