From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It

From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It
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Verne Jules. From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON

CHAPTER I. THE GUN CLUB

CHAPTER II. PRESIDENT BARBICANE'S COMMUNICATION

CHAPTER III. EFFECT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMUNICATION

CHAPTER IV. REPLY FROM THE OBSERVATORY OF CAMBRIDGE

CHAPTER V. THE ROMANCE OF THE MOON

CHAPTER VI. THE PERMISSIVE LIMITS OF IGNORANCE AND BELIEF IN THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER VII. THE HYMN OF THE CANNON-BALL

CHAPTER VIII. HISTORY OF THE CANNON

CHAPTER IX. THE QUESTION OF THE POWDERS

CHAPTER X. ONE ENEMY v. TWENTY-FIVE MILLIONS OF FRIENDS

CHAPTER XI. FLORIDA AND TEXAS

CHAPTER XII. URBI ET ORBI

CHAPTER XIII. STONES HILL

CHAPTER XIV. PICKAXE AND TROWEL

CHAPTER XV. THE FÊTE OF THE CASTING

CHAPTER XVI. THE COLUMBIAD

CHAPTER XVII. A TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH

CHAPTER XVIII. THE PASSENGER OF THE "ATLANTA."

CHAPTER XIX. A MONSTER MEETING

CHAPTER XX. ATTACK AND RIPOSTE

CHAPTER XXI. HOW A FRENCHMAN MANAGES AN AFFAIR

CHAPTER XXII. THE NEW CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER XXIII. THE PROJECTILE-VEHICLE

CHAPTER XXIV. THE TELESCOPE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

CHAPTER XXV. FINAL DETAILS

CHAPTER XXVI. FIRE!

CHAPTER XXVII. FOUL WEATHER

CHAPTER XXVIII. A NEW STAR

ROUND THE MOON:

PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. RECAPITULATING THE FIRST PART OF THIS WORK, AND SERVING AS A PREFACE TO THE SECOND

CHAPTER I. FROM TWENTY MINUTES PAST TEN TO FORTY-SEVEN MINUTES PAST TEN P.M

CHAPTER II. THE FIRST HALF-HOUR

CHAPTER III. THEIR PLACE OF SHELTER

CHAPTER IV. A LITTLE ALGEBRA

CHAPTER V. THE COLD OF SPACE

CHAPTER VI. QUESTION AND ANSWER

CHAPTER VII. A MOMENT OF INTOXICATION

CHAPTER VIII. AT SEVENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN LEAGUES

CHAPTER IX. THE CONSEQUENCES OF A DEVIATION

CHAPTER X. THE OBSERVERS OF THE MOON

CHAPTER XI. FANCY AND REALITY

CHAPTER XII. OROGRAPHIC DETAILS

CHAPTER XIII. LUNAR LANDSCAPES

CHAPTER XIV. THE NIGHT OF THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR HOURS AND A HALF

CHAPTER XV. HYPERBOLA OR PARABOLA

CHAPTER XVI. THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

CHAPTER XVII. TYCHO

CHAPTER XVIII. GRAVE QUESTIONS

CHAPTER XIX. A STRUGGLE AGAINST THE IMPOSSIBLE

CHAPTER XX. THE SOUNDINGS OF THE "SUSQUEHANNA."

CHAPTER XXI. J. T. MASTON RECALLED

CHAPTER XXII. RECOVERED FROM THE SEA

CHAPTER XXIII. THE END

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During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became developed amongst that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers, and mechanics. Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point: nevertheless, they quickly rivalled their compeers of the old continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men.

But the point in which the Americans singularly distanced the Europeans was in the science of gunnery. Not, indeed, that their weapons retained a higher degree of perfection than theirs, but that they exhibited unheard-of dimensions, and consequently attained hitherto unheard-of ranges. In point of grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point-blank firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket-pistols compared with the formidable engines of the American artillery.

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"Go and propose it to the President of the United States," cried J. T. Maston, "and see how he will receive you."

"Bah!" growled Bilsby between the four teeth which the war had left him; "that will never do!"

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