Round the Moon
(by Jules Verne - excerpts)
Chapter 2: The First Half Hour"'Don't you see a fine ribbon of light?' asked Barbicane, 'right beneath us? A thin, pale, silvery crescent?'
'Of course I do. Can that be the Earth?'
'Terra Mater herself, friend Ardan.'"
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Chapter 5: The Colds of Space
"'Friend Michael,' said Barbicane, 'if the moon is inhabited at all, its inhabitants must have appeared some thousands of years before the advent of Man on our Earth, for there seems to be very little doubt that Luna is considerably older than Terra in her present state. Therefore, Selenites if their brain is organized like our own, must have by this time invented all that we are possessed of, and even much which we are still to invent in the course of ages. The probability is that, instead of their learning from us, we shall have much to learn from them.'"
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Chapter 8: The Neutral Point
"'They must be veritable Lilliputians then! cried Ardan; 'and we are all to be Gullivers!'"
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Chapter 12: A Bird's Eye View of the Lunar Mountains
"'The Selenites must have undertaken the immense labor of digging these enormous pits as places of refuge in which they could protect themselves against the fierce solar rays that heat against them for 15 days in succession!!'"
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"'But probably Kepler never knew the real dimensions of these craters.'"
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Chapter 13: Lunar Landscapes
"Here, however, is an account, carefully transcribed from notes taken on the spot, of what Barbicane and his companions did see from their peculiar post of observation."
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"Barbicane also remarked that several large craters, of the class that had no interior cones, reflected a kind of bluish tinge..."
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"But that greenish tint---to what was it due? To a dense tropical vegetation maintained by a low atmosphere..."
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Chapter 15: Glimpses of the Invisible
"'It's a volcano!' cried the Captain, in great excitement; 'a volcano in full blast! An outlet of the Moon's internal fires!'"
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Chapter 17: Tycho
"A more attractive spectacle, however, soon engaged their undivided attention---that of the Moon's southern regions, now brought within about the third of a mile by their telescopes. Immediately resuming their posts by the windows, they carefully noted every feature presented by the fantastic panorama that stretched itself out in endless lengths beneath their wondering eyes."
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"'They're beds of snow,' he said at last in a decided tone. 'Snow!' exclaimed Nicholl."
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"'Even in the depths of this immense crater, Nature, as you can see, has left no flat and empty void. You can easily trace its special oreography, its various mountain systems which turn it into a regular world on a small scale. Notice its cones, its central hills, its valleys, its substructures already cut and dry and therefore quietly prepared to receive the masterpieces of Selenite architecture.'"
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Chapter 19: In Every Fight, the Impossible Wins
"'We are falling!' he shrieked huskily. 'Towards the Moon? Exclaimed his companions. 'No!' cried Ardan, was the terrible reply, 'Towards the Earth!'"
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Chapter 20: Off the Pacific Coast
"He had just finished Locke's famous MOON HOAX, and his brain was still full of its pictures."
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"'Enter LUNATICO, King of the Selenites - '"
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Chapter 21: News for Marston!
"Everybody had instantly understood it. Everybody had felt it to be true. Nothing could be more certain than that the meteor which had just flashed before their eyes was the famous Projectile of the Baltimore Gun Club. Nothing could be truer than that it contained the three world renowned men and it now lay in the black depths of the Pacific Ocean."
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Chapter 23: The Club Men Go a Fishing
"Thanks to its slight specific gravity, the Projectile, after reaching unknown depths of ocean through the terrific momentum of its fall, had been at last arrested in its course and even obliged to return to the surface."
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"At that moment, a joyful shout of triumph rose from the interior..."
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Chapter 24: Farewell to the Baltimore Gun Club
We must not even dream of undertaking a description of the grande fete by which the return of the illustrious members of the Gun Club was to be adequately celebrated..."
