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"
Undoubtedly
,
"
said
Barbicane
;
"
but
it
will
not
be
a
public
fete
"
"
What
!
will
you
not
open
the
gates
of
the
enclosure
to
all
comers
?
"
"
I
must
be
very
careful
,
Maston
.
The
casting
of
the
Columbiad
is
an
extremely
delicate
,
not
to
say
a
dangerous
operation
,
and
I
should
prefer
its
being
done
privately
.
At
the
discharge
of
the
projectile
,
a
fete
if
you
like
--
till
then
,
no
!
"
The
president
was
right
.
The
operation
involved
unforeseen
dangers
,
which
a
great
influx
of
spectators
would
have
hindered
him
from
averting
.
It
was
necessary
to
preserve
complete
freedom
of
movement
.
No
one
was
admitted
within
the
enclosure
except
a
delegation
of
members
of
the
Gun
Club
,
who
had
made
the
voyage
to
Tampa
Town
.
Among
these
was
the
brisk
Bilsby
,
Tom
Hunter
,
Colonel
Blomsberry
,
Major
Elphinstone
,
General
Morgan
,
and
the
rest
of
the
lot
to
whom
the
casting
of
the
Columbiad
was
a
matter
of
personal
interest
.
J.
T.
Maston
became
their
cicerone
.
He
omitted
no
point
of
detail
;
he
conducted
them
throughout
the
magazines
,
workshops
,
through
the
midst
of
the
engines
,
and
compelled
them
to
visit
the
whole
1,200
furnaces
one
after
the
other
.
At
the
end
of
the
twelve-hundredth
visit
they
were
pretty
well
knocked
up
.
The
casting
was
to
take
place
at
twelve
o'clock
precisely
.
The
previous
evening
each
furnace
had
been
charged
with
114,000
pounds
weight
of
metal
in
bars
disposed
cross-ways
to
each
other
,
so
as
to
allow
the
hot
air
to
circulate
freely
between
them
.
At
daybreak
the
1,200
chimneys
vomited
their
torrents
of
flame
into
the
air
,
and
the
ground
was
agitated
with
dull
tremblings
.
As
many
pounds
of
metal
as
there
were
to
cast
,
so
many
pounds
of
coal
were
there
to
burn
.
Thus
there
were
68,000
tons
of
coal
which
projected
in
the
face
of
the
sun
a
thick
curtain
of
smoke
.
The
heat
soon
became
insupportable
within
the
circle
of
furnaces
,
the
rumbling
of
which
resembled
the
rolling
of
thunder
.
The
powerful
ventilators
added
their
continuous
blasts
and
saturated
with
oxygen
the
glowing
plates
.
The
operation
,
to
be
successful
,
required
to
be
conducted
with
great
rapidity
.
On
a
signal
given
by
a
cannon-shot
each
furnace
was
to
give
vent
to
the
molten
iron
and
completely
to
empty
itself
.
These
arrangements
made
,
foremen
and
workmen
waited
the
preconcerted
moment
with
an
impatience
mingled
with
a
certain
amount
of
emotion
.
Not
a
soul
remained
within
the
enclosure
.
Each
superintendent
took
his
post
by
the
aperture
of
the
run
.
Barbicane
and
his
colleagues
,
perched
on
a
neighboring
eminence
,
assisted
at
the
operation
.
In
front
of
them
was
a
piece
of
artillery
ready
to
give
fire
on
the
signal
from
the
engineer
.
Some
minutes
before
midday
the
first
driblets
of
metal
began
to
flow
;
the
reservoirs
filled
little
by
little
;
and
,
by
the
time
that
the
whole
melting
was
completely
accomplished
,
it
was
kept
in
abeyance
for
a
few
minutes
in
order
to
facilitate
the
separation
of
foreign
substances
.
Twelve
o'clock
struck
!
A
gunshot
suddenly
pealed
forth
and
shot
its
flame
into
the
air
.
Twelve
hundred
melting-troughs
were
simultaneously
opened
and
twelve
hundred
fiery
serpents
crept
toward
the
central
well
,
unrolling
their
incandescent
curves
.
There
,
down
they
plunged
with
a
terrific
noise
into
a
depth
of
900
feet
.
It
was
an
exciting
and
a
magnificent
spectacle
.
The
ground
trembled
,
while
these
molten
waves
,
launching
into
the
sky
their
wreaths
of
smoke
,
evaporated
the
moisture
of
the
mould
and
hurled
it
upward
through
the
vent-holes
of
the
stone
lining
in
the
form
of
dense
vapor-clouds
.
These
artificial
clouds
unrolled
their
thick
spirals
to
a
height
of
1,000
yards
into
the
air
A
savage
,
wandering
somewhere
beyond
the
limits
of
the
horizon
,
might
have
believed
that
some
new
crater
was
forming
in
the
bosom
of
Florida
,
although
there
was
neither
any
eruption
,
nor
typhoon
,
nor
storm
,
nor
struggle
of
the
elements
,
nor
any
of
those
terrible
phenomena
which
nature
is
capable
of
producing
.
No
,
it
was
man
alone
who
had
produced
these
reddish
vapors
,
these
gigantic
flames
worthy
of
a
volcano
itself
,
these
tremendous
vibrations
resembling
the
shock
of
an
earthquake
,
these
reverberations
rivaling
those
of
hurricanes
and
storms
;
and
it
was
his
hand
which
precipitated
into
an
abyss
,
dug
by
himself
,
a
whole
Niagara
of
molten
metal
!
