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1 I | arms were long, and his feet were planted with that solidity
2 I | head described than his feet, by reason of the different
3 I | by the doctor’s head and feet respectively being given,
4 III | his stature was above six feet; full of grace and easy
5 III | sometimes only a hundred feet above the soil, while the
6 V | the height of only three feet—not an inch more—and such
7 VII | hundred and forty-seven cubic feet; or, in other words, forty-four
8 VII | hundred and forty-seven cubic feet of air weigh about four
9 VII | hundred and forty-seven cubic feet of gas of which we speak,
10 VII | hundred and forty-seven cubic feet of gas, to give his balloon
11 VII | horizontal diameter was fifty feet, and the vertical diameter
12 VII | vertical diameter seventy-five feet. He thus obtained a spheroid,
13 VII | to ninety thousand cubic feet.~Could Dr. Ferguson have
14 VII | which was only forty-five feet in horizontal, and sixty-eight
15 VII | horizontal, and sixty-eight feet in vertical diameter. The
16 VII | sixty-seven thousand cubic feet: it was to float in the
17 VII | a pound per nine square feet. Hence the surface of the
18 VII | thousand six hundred square feet, its envelope weighed six
19 VII | thousand two hundred square feet of surface, weighed only
20 VII | circular form and fifteen feet in diameter, was made of
21 VII | however, was twenty-five feet in height and the shorter
22 VII | the shorter only fifteen feet.~These sheet-iron chests
23 VII | strong silk ladder fifty feet in length.~He at the same
24 X | is about forty-one cubic feet.~“On the upper part of this
25 X | dilate 18480 or 1614 cubic feet, and will, therefore, displace
26 X | displace 1614 more cubic feet of air, which will increase
27 X | will displace 16,740 cubic feet more, and its ascensional
28 X | atmospheric tension, 1,800 cubic feet of the former and 3,780
29 X | the former and 3,780 cubic feet of the latter, or 5,670
30 X | the latter, or 5,670 cubic feet, in all, of the mixture.
31 X | fully open, expends 27 cubic feet per hour, with a flame at
32 X | burn more than nine cubic feet per hour, so that my twenty-five
33 XI | studded.~Two masts, eighty feet in height, were raised at
34 XI | car then rose about twenty feet above their heads.~“My friends!”
35 XII | height of fifteen hundred feet, as indicated by a depression
36 XII | height of twenty-five hundred feet.~The Resolute looked like
37 XII | altitude only three hundred feet above the soil.~It was then
38 XII | elevation of five or six hundred feet.”~“That was a grant idea
39 XII | trunk fully one hundred feet in circumference. It was,
40 XII | more than three thousand feet, and to accomplish that
41 XIII | Mount Rubeho.—Six Thousand Feet Elevation.—A Halt in the
42 XIII | travelling-chest that will set me on my feet again, bring it without
43 XIII | altitude of four thousand feet, and the thermometer indicated
44 XIII | found it about six hundred feet from the ground. The country
45 XIII | elevation of five thousand feet.”~“Shall we often have occasion
46 XIII | elevation of six thousand feet.~“Shall we go this high
47 XIII | the height of six thousand feet, the density of the atmosphere
48 XIV | bough, and hung about twenty feet from the ground, its arms
49 XIV | height of fifteen hundred feet above the level of the sea.
50 XIV | the height of one thousand feet, where the balloon remained
51 XIV | from six to seven hundred feet, the balloon would have
52 XIV | height of three thousand feet. Hence, the doctor preferred
53 XV | graciously raised him to his feet.~Three-quarters of an hour
54 XV | the “kilindo,” a drum five feet high, hollowed out from
55 XV | not have set him on his feet again.~His favorites and
56 XV | knees, dancing with his feet; describing the most fearful
57 XV | the height of one thousand feet, and the black hung to the
58 XV | toward the ground. At twenty feet above the turf, the affrighted
59 XV | himself drop, fell on his feet, and scampered off at a
60 XVI | found about three hundred feet from the earth, drove the
61 XVI | announced twelve thousand feet of elevation. It was then
62 XVII | and scarcely two hundred feet from the surface; lucky
63 XVII | was from seven to eight feet in height.~The balloon skimmed
64 XVII | curved, and about eight feet in length; and in these
65 XVII | a hole in the ground two feet deep; this he filled with
66 XVII | fallen only about a hundred feet from the edge of the forest;
67 XVII | which might have been two feet in diameter at the base;
68 XVII | one of the animal’s spongy feet. In fact, these are the
69 XVII | green turf. The trunk and feet of the elephant were declared
70 XVIII | seven hundred and fifty feet.~“Here we are, then, on
71 XVIII | gliding away beneath our feet is, beyond all question,
72 XVIII | height of twenty-five hundred feet above the ground.~From that
73 XVIII | lowered about two thousand feet.~“Now, my friends, let us
74 XVIII | and scarcely one hundred feet above the ground. The Nile
75 XVIII | perpendicular cascade of ten feet in height, and consequently
76 XX | elevation of one hundred feet, and immediately over a
77 XX | more than three hundred feet in height—a kind of ancient
78 XX | four hundred and eighty feet in height. It would overtop
79 XX | was one hundred and twenty feet in circumference, and the
80 XXII | numerous tribe.~A hundred feet below the balloon stood
81 XXII | going up some three or four feet, remained there perfectly
82 XXII | a leap of three hundred feet into the air, amid the howlings
83 XXII | elevation of a thousand feet.~“What’s that?” said Kennedy,
84 XXII | the height of six thousand feet, leaving between it and
85 XXIII | The balloon rose a hundred feet or so, and, aided by the
86 XXIV | hundred and eighty cubic feet of gas; yet the cylinder
87 XXIV | consumed about nine cubic feet per hour. Consequently,
88 XXIV | was scarcely eight hundred feet above the level of the sea.
89 XXIV | the balloon at one hundred feet from the ground, and, at
90 XXIV | hundred and thirty-five cubic feet of gas to feed the cylinder,
91 XXV | elevation of five hundred feet, but it had scarcely changed
92 XXV | aloft.~About fifteen hundred feet from the ground, it encountered
93 XXV | them with terror.~At their feet could be seen the half-worn
94 XXVI | hundred and sixty-two cubic feet of gas had been consumed.~
95 XXVI | the height of one hundred feet to that of five miles; his
96 XXVI | the clear imprint of his feet in the sand, and had found
97 XXVI | that; but get up on your feet, if you can. There! lean
98 XXVII | ground at about two hundred feet from the edge of the oasis.~
99 XXVII | discharge.~Joe leaped to his feet, clambered over the body
100 XXVIII | the wind at two hundred feet above the ground, disappeared
101 XIX | mass, with leaves fifteen feet in length upon its stalk,
102 XIX | and lamantines, twelve feet long, with bodies like seals,
103 XIX | computed to be ten thousand feet! Their western slope determines
104 XIX | more than eight thousand feet, the greatest height attained
105 XXX | within a hundred and fifty feet of him, and then, with his
106 XXX | travellers.”~Some boats, fifty feet long, were descending the
107 XXX | Victoria, then one thousand feet above the soil, hardly attracted
108 XXX | motionless about two hundred feet from the ground.~“Here we
109 XXX | extremely small hands and feet, are in excellent request,
110 XXX | went down to within sixty feet of the ground.~Hereupon
111 XXX | distance of but three hundred feet above the ground. Not a
112 XXXI | move away from beneath his feet. The Victoria was once again
113 XXXI | Because we are a thousand feet above them; but close to
114 XXXI | keep at about one hundred feet only from the soil, and,
115 XXXI | reeds and papyrus fifteen feet high, become the lake itself.
116 XXXI | the distance of only five feet.~Joe plunged a bottle into
117 XXXII | foliage more than one hundred feet in breadth. Joe called attention
118 XXXII | than one came within fifty feet of them, as if defying the
119 XXXII | bodies being more than three feet in length, and the lower
120 XXXII | and we are three thousand feet up in the air!”~At this
121 XXXII | to sink from beneath the feet of our three aeronauts.~“
122 XXXII | car was not two hundred feet from the surface of Lake
123 XXXII | motion, mounted a thousand feet into the air, and the wind,
124 XXXIII | was found to be several feet in length.~This operation
125 XXXIII | sixty-seven thousand cubic feet, and contained thirty-three
126 XXXIII | four hundred and eighty feet of gas. The dilating apparatus
127 XXXIII | Victoria rose two hundred feet into the air. It seemed
128 XXXIII | hundred to five hundred feet. Kennedy frequently discharged
129 XXXIII | the height of a thousand feet, a very violent breeze swept
130 XXXIV | one bound of three hundred feet into the air, and took her
131 XXXIV | tremendous din. Although but two feet apart, our aeronauts could
132 XXXV | and his torn and bleeding feet rendered walking both painful
133 XXXV | again, and Joe sprang to his feet precipitately; but judge
134 XXXV | of only about one hundred feet above him. But he could
135 XXXV | reflect!~Like a crazy man, his feet bleeding, his body cut and
136 XXXVI | we shall be within fifty feet of the ground, and in fifteen
137 XXXVI | us, as he gets upon his feet!”~“But the Arabs will overtake
138 XXXVI | them, and only about thirty feet from the ground. On their
139 XXXVI | pursuers—say about fifty feet. The Victoria was now ahead
140 XXXVI | up one hundred and fifty feet into the air.~Joe clung
141 XXXVII | then, I saw—two or three feet from me—what do you think?
142 XXXVII | the poor fellow off his feet! At last I got to the end
143 XXXVII | height of even four thousand feet. Giraffes, antelopes, and
144 XXXVIII| elevation of eighteen hundred feet above the level of the sea,
145 XXXVIII| route often pressed by the feet of camels—arrived that evening,
146 XXXVIII| a height of five hundred feet, and, during her nocturnal
147 XXXVIII| obliterated the marks of their feet almost instantly.~Joe inquired
148 XXXVIII| takes its rise is not two feet broad.~“Easy to jump over,”
149 XLI | Kennedy.~“A little—some fifty feet,” replied the doctor, who
150 XLI | of more than five hundred feet more.~The stock of water
151 XLI | some hundred and twenty feet, but the crest of the mountain
152 XLI | rose more than two hundred feet over the aeronauts.~“In
153 XLI | to it!” cried Joe.~Sixty feet! The mountain still overtopped
154 XLI | overtopped the balloon by sixty feet.~Joe took the blankets and
155 XLI | may have had about twenty feet in breadth at this point,
156 XLI | height of only two hundred feet from the ground, and was
157 XLII | adroitness. In his naked feet, so as not to scratch the
158 XLII | were dropping off their feet with fatigue.~“Lie down,
159 XLII | his eyes and sprang to his feet. An intense glare half-blinded
160 XLII | spun upward a thousand feet into the air.~Frightful
161 XLIII | seven hundred and fifty feet; but we no longer have the
162 XLIII | more than three hundred feet, and the Senegal must be
163 XLIII | only one hundred and fifty feet above the ground; but the
164 XLIII | height of three hundred feet.~The Talabas spurred their
165 XLIII | to fasten it under their feet, where it had formed a sort
166 XLIII | breadth of two thousand feet, the Senegal precipitates
167 XLIII | ascended nearly eight hundred feet. A swift current caught
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