LUNAR LANDSCAPES At half past two in the morning of December 6th, the travellers crossed the 30th northern parallel, at a distance from the lunar surface of 625 miles, reduced to about 6 by their spy-glasses.

Barbican could not yet see the least probability of their landing at any point of the disc.

The velocity of the Projectile was decidedly slow, but for that reason extremely puzzling.

Barbican could not account for it.

At such a proximity to the Moon, the velocity, one would think, should be very great indeed to be able to counteract the lunar attraction.