Chapter

 1 II    |  distance of the moon to eighty yards! He then distinctly perceived
 2 II    |      initial velocity of 12,000 yards per second, and aimed at
 3 IV    |       initial velocity of 1,200 yards per second; calculations
 4 IV    |      initial velocity of 12,000 yards per second, it would require
 5 IV    |      initial velocity of 12,000 yards per second.~4th. It ought
 6 V     |     their width was about 1,600 yards. Astronomers called them
 7 VII   | projectile a velocity of 12,000 yards per second. Let us at present
 8 VII   |     carried a distance of 5,000 yards, impressed upon their projectile
 9 VII   |         initial velocity of 500 yards a second. The Rodman Columbiad
10 VII   |          with a velocity of 800 yards per second— a result which
11 VII   |     point, this velocity of 800 yards. We must increase it twenty-fold.
12 VIII  |         initial force of 12,000 yards per second to a shell of
13 X     |        plate within two hundred yards of the gun. Barbicane still
14 X     | obstinate in refusal. A hundred yards? Not even seventy-five!~“
15 X     |     newspapers. “At twenty-five yards! and I’ll stand behind!”~
16 X     |   whatever a velocity of 12,000 yards per second; that even with
17 XIII  |         ground some hundreds of yards above the level of the sea.”~“
18 XV    |     offered to his view.~At 600 yards from the well, and circularly
19 XV    |    spirals to a height of 1,000 yards into the air. A savage,
20 XXVIII|        fixed at twelve thousand yards to the second. Launched
21 II    |       speed of more than 11,000 yards, which was enough to traverse
22 II    |      initiatory speed of 12,000 yards, on leaving the atmosphere
23 II    |       would be reduced to 9,165 yards. In any case we have already
24 II    | asteroid passed several hundred yards from the projectile and
25 II    |        speed of twelve thousand yards has been kept up, we shall
26 IV    |     Barbicane.~“Twelve thousand yards.”~“What!” exclaimed Barbicane,
27 IV    |         say——”~“Twelve thousand yards.”~“The devil!” cried the
28 IV    |     been——”~“Seventeen thousand yards.”~“And the Cambridge Observatory
29 IV    |   declared that twelve thousand yards was enough at starting;
30 V     |  velocity of seventeen thousand yards in the first second was
31 V     |      speed had only been 12,000 yards at starting. We are still
32 V     |    exceeded the required 12,000 yards. Now I can understand how,
33 VI    |   rather more than 10,936 cubic yards English.~“And it does not
34 VI    |    flattened sack floating some yards from the projectile. This
35 IX    |         him to be more than 200 yards, or about 170 leagues a
36 X     |       to within less than 1,500 yards!~
37 XIII  |      varied from 1,000 to 1,500 yards, and that their borders
38 XV    |        have a diameter of 2,000 yards. It advanced at a speed
39 XVII  |       the glasses to within 450 yards. They did not again leave
40 XVIII |  continent at a distance of 500 yards at most, and that nothing
41 XIX   |    Columbiad, a speed of 16,000 yards in the last second.~But
42 XXII  |        their chamber along some yards above the bottom.~Thus they