Jules Verne said what?

Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.
  • Few can possibly have forgotten the terrible storm from the northeast, in the middle of the equinox of that year.
  • The tempest raged without intermission from the 18th to the 26th of March.
  • Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles, and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel.
    • KD: How is this 1800 miles?
  • Towns were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them, vessels cast on the shore, which the published accounts numbered by hundreds, whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over, several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea; such were the traces of its fury, left by this devastating tempest.
  • It surpassed in disasters those which so frightfully ravaged Havana and Guadalupe, one on the 25th of October, 1810, the other on the 26th of July, 1825.
  • The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
 
KD: How is this 1800 miles?
Maybe 1800 miles north to south, some insane storm that circled the earth and moved that far?

Mysterious Island is part of 20000 leagues under the sea correct? Like 3 different novels worth. Been a bit since I have read it, that was the weather the night that they left in the hot air balloon and got taken to the island if I'm correct. A good read.

Verne was beyond his time, writing about tech that wasn't even thought of in his time, about a hollow earth and more. The Vernian Society is interesting, many believe his stories to be fact.
 
That and many others, I believe the society has been around prior to the internet as we know it. Just the depth and detail he used to describe things that never existed as we know it, during his time period.
 
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