Another question of greater moment to us just now is: where are we?
It seems to me that we are increasing our distance from the Moon very decidedly and very rapidly." It was easy to see that he was quite right in this observation.

The Projectile, still following a northerly course and therefore approaching the lunar equator, was certainly getting farther and farther from the Moon.

Even at 30 deg.

S., only ten degrees farther north than the latitude of _Tycho_, the travellers had considerable difficulty, comparatively, in observing the details of _Pitatus_, a walled mountain on the south shores of the _Mare Nubium_.

In the "sea" itself, over which they now floated, they could see very little, but far to the left, on the 20th parallel, they could discern the vast crater of _Bullialdus_, 9,000 feet deep.