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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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rable to the gravequestion of the habitability of the moon. Barbicane allowed himself to be carried away by these reflec-tions. He forgot himself in a deep reverie in which the mys-terious destiny of the lunar world was uppermost. He wasseeking to combine together the facts observed up to that time,when a new incident recalled him briskly to reality. Thisincident was more than a cosmical phenomenon ; it was athreatened danger, the consequences of which might be disas-trous in the extreme. Suddenly, in the midst of the ether, in the profound darkness,an enoimous mass appeared. It was like a moon, but an incan-descent moon, whose brilliancy was all the more intolerable as itcut sharply on the frightful darkness of space. This mass, of acircular form, threw a light which filled the projectile. Theforms of Barbicane, NichoU, and Michel Ardan, bathed in itswhite sheets, assumed that livid spectral appearance whichphysicians produce with the fictitious light of alcohol impregnatedwith kult.
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A PREY TO FRIGnTFUL TERROR. (p. 267.) HYPERBOLA OR PARABOLA. 267 * Bj Jove ! cried Michel Ardan, « we are hideoua. What isthat ill-conditioned moon ? A meteor, replied Barbicane. A meteor burning in space ? Yes. This shooting globe suddenly appearing in shadow at a distanceof at most 200 miles, ought, according to Barbicane, to have adiameter of 2000 yards. It advanced at a speed of about one mileand a half per second. It cut the projectiles path, and must reachit in some minutes. As it approached it grew to enormousproportions. Imagine, if possible, the situation of the travellers ! It isimpossible to describe it. In spite of their courage, their sang-froid, their carelessness of danger, they were mute, motionlesswith stiffened limbs, a prey to frightful ten-or. Their projectile,the course of which they could not alter, was rushing straight onthis ignited mass, more intense than the open mouth of an oven.It seemed as though they were being precipitated towards an abyssof fire. Barbi

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