Trip 4196 of 4900 collection book65
Two minutes after the sudden appearance of the meteor to them two centuries of anguish the projectilebook51 seemed almost about to strike it when the globe of fire burst like a bomb but without making any noise in that void where sound which is but the agitation of the layers of air could not be generated. These incandescent blocks crossed and struck each other scattering still smaller fragments some of which struck the projectile. Then immense spaces no longer arid plains but real seas oceans widely distributed reflecting on their liquid surface all the dazzling magic of the fires of space and lastly on the surface of the continents large dark masses looking like immense forests under the rapid illumination of a brilliance. The fiery mountain must have been situated about the south latitude on the invisible part of the disc but to Barbicanes great displeasure the curve which the projectile was describing was taking it far from the point indicated by the eruption. Well said Nicholl replied Michel Ardan.
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