Round the Moon

{{Tr|an unknown hand}}. This translation begins: (Preliminary Chapter) "During the course of the year 186— the entire world was singularly excited by a scientific experiment without precedent in the annals of science. The members of the Gun Club, a circle of artillerymen established at Baltimore after the American war, had the idea of putting themselves in communication with the moon— yes, with the moon— by sending a bullet to her."