At last a long article appeared, on the 7th of October, in the bulletin of the Royal Geographical Society, which treated the question from every point of view, and demonstrated the utter folly of the enterprise.

• 事实是这样的：10月7日英国皇家地理学会的会刊登载了一篇很长的论文，从各方面论证了八十天绕地球一周的问题。它直截了当地指出：干这种事的人简直是神经错乱！