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Lest originality of title and theme be denied, it is but justice to myself to state that both were assumed in November, 1887. My thanks are due to Lieutenant D. L. Brainard, Second Cavalry, for the true copy of the record of the Greely party left in the cairn at the farthest point on the globe ever reached by man—83 degrees 24 minutes North Latitude, 40 degrees 46 minutes West Longitude.

The Author.

CHAPTER I
Junius Cobb’s Marvelous Discovery	9
CHAPTER II
A Startling Proposition	31
CHAPTER III
Preparing for the Test	45
CHAPTER IV
Jean Colchis, Conspirator and Savant	61
CHAPTER V
On the Eve of a Century’s Sleep	80
CHAPTER VI
Faithful unto Death	101
CHAPTER VII
“You Say this is AD 2000?”	108
CHAPTER VIII
San Francisco in the Twenty-First Century	130
CHAPTER IX
The Central Pneumatic Railroad	150
CHAPTER X
Under the Central Sea	168
CHAPTER XI
The Army of Instruction	199
CHAPTER XII
Junius Cobb Reads a Newspaper	235
CHAPTER XIII
New York City—Population 4,000,000	245
CHAPTER XIV
The Law of the Land	261
CHAPTER XV
The Sympathetic Telegraph	278
CHAPTER XVI
Chicago the Metropolis of the Country	299
CHAPTER XVII
Niagara Falls Harnessed	309
CHAPTER XVIII
The Mystery of the Copper Cylinder	315
CHAPTER XIX
Resurrected	332
CHAPTER XX
An Aerial Voyage	347
CHAPTER XXI
The Transatlantic Life-Saving Stations	363
CHAPTER XXII
Locating the North Pole	380
CHAPTER XXIII
United at Last	396
CHAPTER XXIV
Conclusion	404

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