But by taking into consideration the Moon's distance, and the time elapsed between the moment of the start and that of the presumed fall (about 10 days), and also the Earth's revolution in the meantime, it was soon calculated that the point at which the Projectile should strike our globe, if it struck it at all, would be somewhere about 27 deg.
north latitude, and 42 deg.

west longitude--the very identical spot given in the Captain's dispatch! This certainly was a strong point in its favor, especially as there was positively nothing valid whatever to urge against it.
A decided resolution was therefore immediately taken.

Everything that man could do was to be done at once, in order to fish up their brave associates from the depths of the Pacific.

That very night, in fact, whilst the streets of Baltimore were still resounding with the yells of contending _Belfasters_ and _Barbicanites_, a committee of four, Morgan, Hunter, Murphy, and Elphinstone, were speeding over the Alleghanies in a special train, placed at their disposal by the _Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company_, and fast enough to land them in Chicago pretty early on the following evening.
Here a fresh locomotive and a Pullman car taking charge of them, they were whirled off to Omaha, reaching that busy locality at about supper time on the evening of December 16th.

The Pacific Train, as it was called though at that time running no further west than Julesburg, instead of waiting for the regular hour of starting, fired up that very night, and was soon pulling the famous Baltimore Club men up the slopes of the Nebraska at the rate of forty miles an hour.