In a few degrees more she would reach the exact point of space where her junction with the Projectile was to be effected.

According to his own observations, Barbican calculated that they should strike her in the northern hemisphere, where her plains, or _seas_ as they are called, are immense, and her mountains are comparatively rare.

This, of course, would be so much the more favorable, if, as was to be apprehended, the lunar atmosphere was confined exclusively to the low lands.
"Besides," as Ardan observed, "a plain is a more suitable landing place than a mountain.

A Selenite deposited on the top of Mount Everest or even on Mont Blanc, could hardly be considered, in strict language, to have arrived on Earth." "Not to talk," added M'Nicholl, "of the comfort of the thing! When you land on a plain, there you are.

When you land on a peak or on a steep mountain side, where are you?
Tumbling over an embankment with the train going forty miles an hour, would be nothing to it." "Therefore, Captain Barbican," cried the Frenchman, "as we should like to appear before the Selenites in full skins, please land us in the snug though unromantic North.