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Making allusion to the width of Florida, a simple peninsula between two seas, they pretended it would not resist the shock, and would be blown up the first time the cannon was fired. "Very well! let it be blown up!" answered the Floridans with a laconism worthy of ancient times. The astronomical, mechanical, and topographical difficulties once removed, there remained the question of money.
This was formed by a considerable elevation of the soil, which seemed to offer to the members of the Gun Club all the conditions requisite for the construction of their Columbiad. "Halt!" said Barbicane, reining up. "Has this place any local appellation?" "It is called Stones Hill," replied one of the Floridans.
The influence of Blanc and Raphignac was likely to carry the majority and reject the application of the Floridans. The pertinacious opposition of these men inflamed to anger Moore and Thomas. The matter, to them, was life or death. By some means they must get under the American flag, and they saw the only preventive in these two men.
Alluding to the extent of Florida, a mere peninsula confined between two seas, they pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge, and that it would "bust up" at the very first shot. "Very well, let it bust up!" replied the Floridans, with a brevity of the days of ancient Sparta.
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