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FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON

Table of Contents

I. The Gun Club

II. President Barbicane's Communication

III. Effect of the President's Communication

IV. Reply From the Observatory of Cambridge

V. The Romance of the Moon

VI. The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States

Belief in the United States

VII. The Hymn of the Cannon-Ball

VIII. History of the Cannon

IX. The Question of the Powders

X. One Enemy V. Twenty-Five Millions of Friends

XI. Florida and Texas

XII. Urbi et Orbi

XIII. Stones Hill

XIV. Pickaxe and Trowel

XV. The Fete of the Casting

XVI. The Columbiad

XVII. A Telegraphic Dispatch

XVIII. The Passenger of the Atlanta

XIX. A Monster Meeting

XX. Attack and Riposte

XXI. How A Frenchman Manages An Affair

XXII. The New Citizen of the United States

XXIII. The Projectile-Vehicle

XXIV. The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains

XXV. Final Details

XXVI. Fire!

XXVII. Foul Weather
XXVIII. A New Star

A TRIP AROUND IT

Preliminary Chapter-- Recapitulating the First Part of
This Work, and Serving as a Preface to the Second

I. From Twenty Minutes Past Ten to Forty-Seven Minutes Past Ten P. M.

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

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

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON

CHAPTER I. THE GUN CLUB

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.

		All professions are conspiracies against the laity. George Bernard Shaw