6 p.m.
The mountains equal to Mont Blanc are Moret , Theophylus , and Catharnia ; to Mount Rosa , Piccolomini , Werner , and Harpalus ; to Mount Cervin , Macrobus , Eratosthenes , Albateque , and Delambre ; to the Peak of Teneriffe , Bacon , Cysatus , Philolaus , and the Alps ; to Mount Perdu , in the Pyrenees , Roemer and Boguslawski ; to Etna , Hercules , Atlas , and Furnerius . Such are the points of comparison that allow the appreciation of the altitude of lunar mountains . Now the trajectory followed by the projectile dragged it precisely towards that mountainous region of the southern hemisphere where rise the finest specimens of lunar orography . At 6 p.m. the projectile passed the South Pole at less than thirty miles , a distance equal to that already reached at the North Pole . The elliptical curve was , therefore , being rigorously described . At that moment the travellers re-entered the beneficent sunshine . They saw once more the stars moving slowly from east to west .