Chapter

 1 I     |            its formation it numbered 1,833 effective members and
 2 IV    |           proposed to it are these—~“1. Is it possible to transmit
 3 IV    |       possess an initial velocity of 1,200 yards per second; calculations
 4 V     |          They succeeded in measuring 1,905 different elevations,
 5 V     |            and their width was about 1,600 yards. Astronomers called
 6 VII   |               in 1453, stone shot of 1,900 pounds weight were employed.
 7 IX    |        produced by its combustion as 1 to 4,000. One may judge,
 8 IX    |             a mile long; for you see 1,600,000 pounds will occupy
 9 IX    |             quantity of powder. Now, 1,600,000 pounds of powder
10 IX    |                So, then, in place of 1,600,000 pounds of powder,
11 X     |         developed by the ignition of 1,600,000 pounds of powder;
12 X     |             an increasing scale:~No. 1 ($1,000).— That the necessary
13 X     |            increasing scale:~No. 1 ($1,000).— That the necessary
14 XII   |              subscribed for a sum of 1,253,930 francs. At that
15 XII   |          could not do less than give 1,372,640 piastres; and she
16 XII   |         Foreign subscriptions . . . $1,446,675~   ~Total, . . . . $
17 XV    |             as a central point, rose 1,200 reverberating ovens,
18 XV    |      circumference occupied by these 1,200 ovens presented a length
19 XV    |          than sixty-eight vessels of 1,000 tons, a veritable fleet,
20 XV    |            easily be understood that 1,200 furnaces were not too
21 XV    |           receiving troughs; and the 1,200 converging trenches
22 XV    |              them to visit the whole 1,200 furnaces one after the
23 XV    |        between them. At daybreak the 1,200 chimneys vomited their
24 XV    |         thick spirals to a height of 1,000 yards into the air.
25 XXVIII|              into our consideration.~1. Either the attraction of
26 I     |        gun-cotton, which is equal to 1,600,000 pounds of ordinary
27 II    |            with the usual flourish, [1] and gave it to the captain,
28 II    |             anything so “American.”~[1] This is a purely French
29 VIII  |     hypotheses presented themselves.~1. Either it would retain
30 VIII  |            the earth would weigh but 1,920 pounds on the surface
31 X     |          surface to within less than 1,500 yards!~
32 XIII  |            their breadth varied from 1,000 to 1,500 yards, and
33 XIII  |         breadth varied from 1,000 to 1,500 yards, and that their
34 XIII  |            feet, rose Mount Helicon, 1,520 feet high, and round
35 XVII  |             by a central mountain of 1,500 feet. A vast circle,
36 XX    | sounding-line was not yet completed; 1,670 fathoms were still out,