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II. The First Half Hour

III. Their Place of Shelter

IV. A Little Algebra

V. The Cold of Space

VI. Question and Answer

VII. A Moment of Intoxication

VIII. At Seventy-Eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues IX. The Consequences of A Deviation

X. The Observers of the Moon

XI. Fancy and Reality

XII. Orographic Details

XIII. Lunar Landscapes

XIV. The Night of Three Hundred and Fifty-Four Hours and A Half XV. Hyperbola or Parabola

XVI. The Southern Hemisphere

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XVII. Tycho

XVIII. Grave Questions

XIX. A Struggle Against the Impossible

XX. The Soundings of the Susquehanna

XXI. J. T. Maston Recalled

XXII. Recovered From the Sea

XXIII. The End

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FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON

CHAPTER I

THE GUN CLUB

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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 among 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 rivaled 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.