LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[The Artillery-men of the Gun Club]

[President Barbicane]

[Meeting of the Gun Club]

[The Torchlight Procession]

[Cambridge Observatory]

[The Moon's Disc]

[Barbicane holds forth]

[The Rodman Columbiad]

[Cannon at Malta in the time of the Knights]

[Ideal Sketch of J. T. Maston's Gun]

[The invention of Gunpowder by the Monk Schwartz]

[Captain Nicholl]

[Nicholl published a number of Letters in the Newspapers]

[It became necessary to keep an eye upon the Deputies]

[The Subscription was opened]

[The Manufactory at Coldspring, near New York]

[Tampa Town, previous to the undertaking]

[They were compelled to ford several Rivers]

[The Work progressed regularly]

[The Casting]

[Tampa Town, after the undertaking]

[The Banquet in the Columbiad]

[President Barbicane at his Window]

[Michel Ardan]

[The Meeting]

[Projectile Trains for the Moon]

[Attack and Riposte]

[The Platform was suddenly carried away]

[Maston burst into the Room]

[In the midst of this Snare was a poor little Bird]

["Go with me, and see whether we are stopped on our journey"]

[The Cat taken out of the Shell]

[The Arrival of the Projectile at Stones Hill]

[J. T. Maston had grown fat]

[The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains]

[The Interior of the Projectile]

[An innumerable Multitude covered the Prairie round Stones Hill]

[Fire!!]

[Effect of the Explosion]

[The Director at his Post]

[The Gas caught fire]

[Diana and Satellite]

[The courageous Frenchman]

[They raised Barbicane]

[It was an enormous Disc]

[They gave her a pie]

[The Sun chose to be of the party]

[Ardan plunged his hand rapidly into certain mysterious boxes]

["Do I understand it?" cried Ardan; "my head is splitting with it".]

[Satellite was thrown out]

[It was the Body of Satellite]

["I could have ventured out on the top of the Projectile"]

[They struck up a frantic dance]

["The Oxygen!" he exclaimed]

["Ah! if Raphael had seen us thus"]

[The Telescope at Parsonstown]

[How many people have heard speak of the Moon!]

["This plain would then be nothing but an immense Cemetery"]

["What Giant Oxen!"]

[He could distinguish nothing but Desert Beds]

["It is the fault of the Moon"]

[Nothing could equal the splendour of this starry world]

["The vapour of our breath will fall in snow around us"]

[A Discussion arose]

[A Prey to frightful Terror]

[What a sight!]

["The Sun!"]

["Light and Heat; all Life is contained in them"]

[He distinguished all this]

[Can you picture to yourselves]

[A violent Contraction of the Lunar Crust]

[Around the Projectile were the Objects which had been thrown out]

["These practical people have sometimes most inopportune ideas"]

[Ardan applied the lighted Match]

["I fancy I see them"]

[A few feet nearer]

[The unfortunate man had disappeared]

[The Descent began]

["White all, Barbicane"]

[The Apotheosis was worthy of the three Heroes]

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON.

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