Science fiction, French -- Translations into English
In connection with this new axis of rotation, starting from Baffins' Bay
in the north, to Adelialand in the south, a new equator will be formed
above which the sun will travel without ever changing his daily course.
The equinoctial line will cross the Kilimanjaro, at Wamasai, the Indian
Ocean, Goa and Chicacola, a little below Calcutta in India, Mandalay in
the Kingdom of Siam, Kesho in Tonquin, Hong Kong in China, Risa Island,
Marshall Island, Gaspar Rico, Walker Island in the Pacific, the
Cordilleras in the Argentine Republic, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, the
islands of Trinity and St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, St. Paul de
Loando on the Congo, and finally it will meet again in the territories of
Wamasai, back of Kilimanjaro. This new equator being thus determined by
the creation of the new axis, it became possible to calculate the changes
of the ocean tides, which was so important for the security of the
inhabitants of the earth. It is just to observe that the directors of the
North Polar Practical Association had taken measure to weaken the shock as
much as possible. If the shooting had been towards the north the
consequences of it would have been much more disastrous for the more
civilized parts of the earth. On the other hand, shooting towards the
south the consequences would only be felt most in parts less populated and
less civilized. The careful calculations made showed how the waters would
be distributed when thrown out of their beds by the flattening of the
sphere around the new poles. The globe would be divided by two great
circles, intersecting in a right angle at Kilimanjaro, and at its
antipodes in the equinoctial ocean. This would form four sections, two in
the north and two in the south, separated by the lines upon which the
ocean upheaval would be zero.
In the northern hemisphere: The first section west of Kilimanjaro would
take in Africa from the Congo to Egypt, Europe from Turkey to Greenland,
America from English Columbia to Peru, and from Brazil as high as San
Salvador, and finally the whole northern Atlantic Ocean and the largest
part of the temperate Atlantic zone.
The second section, east of Kilimanjaro, would include the greater part of
Europe, from the Black Sea to Sweden, European and Asiatic Russia, Arabia,
nearly the whole of India, Persia, Beloochistan, Afganistan, Turkestan,
the Celestial Empire, Mongolia, Japan, Corea, the Black Sea, the Caspian
Sea, the greater part of the Pacific Ocean, the territories of Alaska in
North America, and also the polar region which belonged to the American
society, North Polar Practical Association.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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