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1 V | notwithstanding that her diameter measures 2,150 miles, her
2 VII | you give your projectile a diameter of sixty feet?”~“Not so.”~“
3 VII | objects need not have a diameter of more than nine feet.”~“
4 VII | be more than nine feet in diameter.”~“Let me observe, however,”
5 VII | iron ball of nine feet in diameter would be of tremendous weight.”~“
6 VII | proportion,” replied Morgan, “a diameter of 108 inches would require
7 VII | A shot of 108 inches in diameter, and twelve inches in thickness,
8 VIII | a shell of 108 inches in diameter, weighing 20,000 pounds.
9 VIII | to twenty-five times the diameter of the shot, and its weight
10 VIII | projectile nine feet in diameter, weighing 30,000 pounds,
11 XIV | nine feet in its interior diameter, six feet thick, and with
12 XIV | a well of sixty feet in diameter to dig down to a depth of
13 XIV | circular hole sixty feet in diameter. The pickaxe first struck
14 XIV | disc was hollowed out to a diameter equal to the exterior diameter
15 XIV | diameter equal to the exterior diameter of the Columbiad. Upon this
16 XIV | well twenty-one feet in diameter. When this work was accomplished,
17 XV | ovens, each six feet in diameter, and separated from each
18 XV | feet high, and nine feet in diameter, which should exactly fill
19 XX | assumes that the angular diameter of the moon has been completely
20 XXIV | object exceeding nine feet in diameter.~At the period when the
21 XXIV | forty-eight feet, and the diameter of its object-glass six
22 XXIV | less than sixty feet in diameter, unless they were of very
23 XXIV | projectile nine feet in diameter and fifteen feet long, it
24 XXIV | object-glass sixteen feet in diameter. Colossal as these dimensions
25 XXIV | utmost extent; the apparent diameter of a great number of stars
26 XXVIII| made of aluminum with a diameter of 108 inches and a thickness
27 II | appeared, nineteen inches in diameter, hollowed out of the lower
28 V | deducting from the terrestrial diameter the projectile’s distance
29 X | leagues, and objects having a diameter of thirty feet are seen
30 XII | Its circumference showed a diameter of about twenty-two leagues.
31 XII | gives a sphere of a smaller diameter than that of the moon.”~“
32 XIV | which developes itself at a diameter of two degrees, and which
33 XV | to Barbicane, to have a diameter of 2,000 yards. It advanced
34 XVI | very narrow, the angular diameter of the moon being so little
35 XVI | little when compared with the diameter of the orb of day; and up
36 XX | surface of only nine feet in diameter. Very well; let our industrious
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