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 1 XI    |      circumference of fourteen leagues, and is capable of containing
 2 XXVIII|        which is exactly 86,410 leagues (French), or 238,833 miles
 3 XXVIII|       apparent distance of two leagues. The honorable secretary
 4 II    |       than two thousand French leagues,” exclaimed Michel Ardan. “
 5 V     |       already more than 50,000 leagues from the earth. We have
 6 V     |       earth at more than 2,000 leagues’ distance.”~“And this explanation
 7 V     |       projectile only at 8,000 leagues instead of 80,000, which
 8 VII   |      and we need only go 8,000 leagues in order to fall upon the
 9 VIII  |      FIVE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN LEAGUES~What had happened? Whence
10 VIII  |       journey, i.e., at 78,514 leagues from the earth. At this
11 IX    |        reality a fall of 8,296 leagues on an orb, it is true, where
12 IX    |    which was only two thousand leagues distant, that its speed
13 IX    |        aim at no more than 700 leagues. The speed of the projectile
14 IX    |        200 yards, or about 170 leagues a second. Under the centripetal
15 IX    |        in a distance of 84,000 leagues, it wanted no more to make
16 X     | estimated at about two hundred leagues. Under these conditions,
17 X     |   apparent distance of sixteen leagues. And more than that, with
18 X     |        to within less than two leagues, and objects having a diameter
19 X     |   apparent) of less than 2,000 leagues from the earth. But then,
20 XII   |   diameter of about twenty-two leagues. The glasses discovered
21 XIII  |       measured from 400 to 500 leagues in length; that their breadth
22 Not   |    page 125 has perigee 86,410 leagues (French), or 238,833 miles <