DAY AND NIGHT 



and iinally France. Let us descend quickly, get on 

 to our feet; the earth has finished its rotation. 



"Do not for an instant, my little friends, think 

 that this giddy spectacle of the earth passing with 

 tin* rapidity of a cannon-ball would be visible to any 

 hut spiritual eyes. By rising into the upper air in 

 a balloon, as Jules said, it does at first seem as if we 

 < mi^ht to see the earth turning and lands and seas 

 passing under our feet. Nothing of the kind takes 

 place, for the atmosphere turns with the terrestrial 

 globe and drags the balloon in the general rotation, 

 instead of leaving it at rest, as would be necessary 

 if the observer were to have successively under his 

 eyes the different regions of the earth." 



