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Not
a
single
spectator
remained
on
his
feet
!
Men
,
women
children
,
all
lay
prostrate
like
ears
of
corn
under
a
tempest
.
There
ensued
a
terrible
tumult
;
a
large
number
of
persons
were
seriously
injured
.
J.
T.
Maston
,
who
,
despite
all
dictates
of
prudence
,
had
kept
in
advance
of
the
mass
,
was
pitched
back
120
feet
,
shooting
like
a
projectile
over
the
heads
of
his
fellow-citizens
.
Three
hundred
thousand
persons
remained
deaf
for
a
time
,
and
as
though
struck
stupefied
.
As
soon
as
the
first
effects
were
over
,
the
injured
,
the
deaf
,
and
lastly
,
the
crowd
in
general
,
woke
up
with
frenzied
cries
.
"
Hurrah
for
Ardan
!
Hurrah
for
Barbicane
!
Hurrah
for
Nicholl
!
"
rose
to
the
skies
.
Thousands
of
persons
,
noses
in
air
,
armed
with
telescopes
and
race-glasses
,
were
questioning
space
,
forgetting
all
contusions
and
emotions
in
the
one
idea
of
watching
for
the
projectile
.
They
looked
in
vain
!
It
was
no
longer
to
be
seen
,
and
they
were
obliged
to
wait
for
telegrams
from
Long
's
Peak
.
The
director
of
the
Cambridge
Observatory
was
at
his
post
on
the
Rocky
Mountains
;
and
to
him
,
as
a
skillful
and
persevering
astronomer
,
all
observations
had
been
confided
.
But
an
unforeseen
phenomenon
came
in
to
subject
the
public
impatience
to
a
severe
trial
.
The
weather
,
hitherto
so
fine
,
suddenly
changed
;
the
sky
became
heavy
with
clouds
.
It
could
not
have
been
otherwise
after
the
terrible
derangement
of
the
atmospheric
strata
,
and
the
dispersion
of
the
enormous
quantity
of
vapor
arising
from
the
combustion
of
200,000
pounds
of
pyroxyle
!
On
the
morrow
the
horizon
was
covered
with
clouds
--
a
thick
and
impenetrable
curtain
between
earth
and
sky
,
which
unhappily
extended
as
far
as
the
Rocky
Mountains
.
It
was
a
fatality
!
But
since
man
had
chosen
so
to
disturb
the
atmosphere
,
he
was
bound
to
accept
the
consequences
of
his
experiment
.
Supposing
,
now
,
that
the
experiment
had
succeeded
,
the
travelers
having
started
on
the
1st
of
December
,
at
10h
.
46m
.
40s
.
P.
M.
,
were
due
on
the
4th
at
0h
.
P.
M.
at
their
destination
.
So
that
up
to
that
time
it
would
have
been
very
difficult
after
all
to
have
observed
,
under
such
conditions
,
a
body
so
small
as
the
shell
.
Therefore
they
waited
with
what
patience
they
might
From
the
4th
to
the
6th
of
December
inclusive
,
the
weather
remaining
much
the
same
in
America
,
the
great
European
instruments
of
Herschel
,
Rosse
,
and
Foucault
,
were
constantly
directed
toward
the
moon
,
for
the
weather
was
then
magnificent
;
but
the
comparative
weakness
of
their
glasses
prevented
any
trustworthy
observations
being
made
.
On
the
7th
the
sky
seemed
to
lighten
.
They
were
in
hopes
now
,
but
their
hope
was
of
but
short
duration
,
and
at
night
again
thick
clouds
hid
the
starry
vault
from
all
eyes
.
Matters
were
now
becoming
serious
,
when
on
the
9th
the
sun
reappeared
for
an
instant
,
as
if
for
the
purpose
of
teasing
the
Americans
.
It
was
received
with
hisses
;
and
wounded
,
no
doubt
,
by
such
a
reception
,
showed
itself
very
sparing
of
its
rays
.
