Chapter

 1 I    |     not employ these remaining years of our life in perfecting
 2 II   |   Barbicane was a man of forty years of age, calm, cold, austere;
 3 II   |  inactivity. After a period of years full of incidents we have
 4 II   | however we may desire it, many years may elapse before our cannon
 5 II   |       made during the last few years, and what a degree of perfection
 6 IV   |       of zenith until eighteen years and eleven days afterward.~
 7 XI   |        English for two hundred years, you were sold to the United
 8 XII  |     regulates the cycle of her years and her fast of Ramadan.
 9 XII  |    that is to say, in eighteen years and eleven days.~The engagement
10 XVII |     months appeared as long as years! Hitherto the smallest details
11 XVIII|       a man of about forty-two years of age, of large build,
12 XVIII|   addressed a friend of twenty years’ standing.~“Yes,” replied
13 XIX  |   convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our
14 XIX  |  planet, to say nothing of his years, which each equal twelve
15 XXII |        in particular, of forty years and upward, and dry in proportion,
16 XXIV |    astronomer Hooke only a few years ago!~Regarding the choice
17 XXVI |       P.M., more than eighteen years must roll by before the
18 I    |     stand a lease of a hundred years. You smile, Barbicane. Have
19 I    |     worth more than twenty-six years in which nothing is done.
20 V    |     appeared some thousands of years before those of the earth,
21 V    |       hundreds of thousands of years, and if their brain is of
22 V    |           When?”~“Thousands of years before man appeared on earth.”~“
23 VII  |        of Florida? In eighteen years’ time will she not occupy
24 XIV  | constellations which in 12,000 years, by reason of the succession
25 XVIII|      after a period of 400,000 years, be brought down to zero!”~“
26 XVIII|          Four hundred thousand years!” exclaimed Michel. “Ah!
27 XVIII|       had not more than 50,000 years to live.”~Barbicane and