[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]