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Title: From the Earth to the Moon direct in ninety-seven hours and twenty minutes, and a trip round it
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ind of ovation, Barbicane ensconcedhimself in a room of the Franklin Hotel. On the morrow some of those small horses of the Spanish breed,full of vigour and of fire, stood snorting under his windows ;but instead of four steeds, here were fifty, together with theirriders. Barbicane descended with his three fellow-travellers ;and much astonished were they all to find themselves in themidst of such a cavalcade. He remarked that every horsemancarried a carbine slung across his shoulders and pistols in hisholsters. On expressing his surprise at these preparations, he was speedilyenlightened by a young Floridan, who quietly said,— Sir, there aie Seminoles there. What do you mean by Seminoles? Savages who scour the prairies. We thought it best, there-fore, to escort you on your road. Pooh ! cried J. T. Maston, mounting his steed. All right, said the Floridan; but it is true enough, never-theless. Gentlemen, answered Barbicane, I thank you for your kindattention ; but it is time to be off*.
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TAMPA TOWN PREVIOUS TO THE UNDERTAKTNG. (p. G6.1 STO^TES HILL. 67 It was five a.m. when Barbicane and his party, quitting TampaTown, made their way along the coast in the direction of AlifiaCreek. This little river falls into Hillisborough Bay twelve milesabove Tampa Town. Baibicane and his escort coasted along itsright bank to the eastward. Soon the waves of the bay dis-appeared behind a bend of rising ground, and the Floridan champagne alone offered itself to view. Florida, discovered on Palm Sunday, in 1512, by Juan Poncede Leon, was originally named Pascha Florida. It little deservedthat designation with its dry and parched coasts. But after somefew miles of tract the nature of the soil gradually changes andthe country shows itself worthy of the name. Cultivated plainssoon appear, where are united all the productions of the northernand tropical floras, terminating in piairies abounding with pine-apples and yams, tobacco, rice, cotton-plants, and sugar-canes,which extend beyond rea

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