It was on a narrow platform placed above the telescope that the two savants passed their existence,execrating the day which hid the moon from their eyes, and the clouds which obstinately veiled her during the night.
What, then, was their delight when, after some days of waiting, on the night of the 5th of December, they saw the vehicle which was bearing their friends into space! To this delight succeeded a great deception, when, trusting to a cursory observation, they launched their first telegram to the world, erroneously affirmin that the projectile had become a satellite of the moon, gravitating in an immutable orbit.