Falling from the summit of St.Peter's, it strikes the earth at the rate of 300 miles an hour, or five times quicker than the rapidest express train.

Falling from the neutral point, the Projectile should strike the Earth with a velocity of more than 25,000 miles an hour! "We are lost!" said M'Nicholl gloomily, his philosophy yielding to despair.
"One consolation, boys!" cried Ardan, genial to the last.

"We shall die together!" "If we die," said Barbican calmly, but with a kind of suppressed enthusiasm, "it will be only to remove to a more extended sphere of our investigations.

In the other world, we can pursue our inquiries under far more favorable auspices.

There the wonders of our great Creator, clothed in brighter light, shall be brought within a shorter range.