We found, before the hands of the dial had taught us the lapse of a week, that this would be something not to be endured. It was in the year 189 that the government of the united states conceived the idea of putting the as yet undiscovered countries around the north pole up at auction sale, and an american society had just been formed with the plan of purchasing this arctic area and has asked the concession. The purchase of the north pole is the account of a superscientific exploit designed to change the face of the world itself, melt the poles, cool the tropics, and millions have been enthralled by jules vernes story of the gun club and their shot to the moon. At the publishers request, this title is sold without drm digital rights management. The modern discoverers who had been nearest to this parallel were parry, markham, lockwood and brainard.
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