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the room was bright and cheerful

A. D. 2000


BY
LIEUT. ALVARADO M. FULLER
U. S. A.


CHICAGO
Laird & Lee Publishers
1890


Entered according to act of Congress in the year eighteen hundredand ninety, by LAIRD & LEE, in the office of the librarian of Congressat Washington.

(All rights reserved.)


PREFACE

Lest originality of title and theme be denied,it is but justice to myself to state that both wereassumed in November, 1887. My thanks are due toLieutenant D. L. Brainard, Second Cavalry, for thetrue copy of the record of the Greely party left inthe cairn at the farthest point on the globe everreached by man—83 degrees 24 minutes North Latitude,40 degrees 46 minutes West Longitude.

The Author.


CONTENTS


CHAPTER I
Junius Cobb’s Marvelous Discovery9
CHAPTER II
A Startling Proposition31
CHAPTER III
Preparing for the Test45
CHAPTER IV
Jean Colchis, Conspirator and Savant61
CHAPTER V
On the Eve of a Century’s Sleep80
CHAPTER VI
Faithful unto Death101
CHAPTER VII
“You Say this is A. D. 2000?”108
CHAPTER VIII
San Francisco in the Twenty-First Century130
CHAPTER IX
The Central Pneumatic Railroad150
CHAPTER X
Under the Central Sea168
CHAPTER XI
The Army of Instruction199
CHAPTER XII
Junius Cobb Reads a Newspaper...

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