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Chapter 22—A Frozen Ocean The moon! She had disappeared for weeks; was she now returning? Had she been faithless to the earth? and had she now approached to be a satellite of the new-born world? “Impossible!” said Lieutenant Procope; “the earth is millions and millions of leagues away, and it is not probable that the moon has ceased to revolve about her.” “Why not?” remonstrated Servadac. “It would not be more strange than the other phenomena which we have lately witnessed. Why should not the moon have fallen within the limits of Gallia’s attraction, and become her satellite?” “Upon that supposition,” put in the count, “I should think that it would be altogether unlikely that three months would elapse without our seeing her.” “Quite incredible!” continued Procope. “And there is anothe