Chapter
1 Note | as in journeying “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas.”~
2 I | the handsome amount of two thousand five hundred pounds. The
3 II | upon word of all this, a thousand encouragements were offered,
4 III | An objection! I have a thousand; but among other things,
5 IV | by the Touaregs. After a thousand scenes of pillage, of vexation,
6 V | one chance of success in a thousand, he pretended to yield entirely
7 V | subsidy of more than five thousand pounds, and the Governor
8 VII | capacity.~A weight of four thousand pounds is represented by
9 VII | amounting to forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven
10 VII | other words, forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven
11 VII | of air weigh about four thousand pounds.~By giving the balloon
12 VII | pounds—a difference of three thousand seven hundred and twenty-four
13 VII | However, were the forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven
14 VII | had to carry forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven
15 VII | round numbers, to ninety thousand cubic feet.~Could Dr. Ferguson
16 VII | balloon was only sixty-seven thousand cubic feet: it was to float
17 VII | balloon being about eleven thousand six hundred square feet,
18 VII | inner balloon, having nine thousand two hundred square feet
19 VII | were the items of the four thousand pounds that Dr. Ferguson
20 VIII | chamois at the distance of two thousand paces. Along with these
21 VIII | up in her bosom for six thousand years.~But the interest
22 VIII | thirty-five hundred—say four thousand miles. Well, at the rate
23 XI | sulphuric acid, sixteen thousand and fifty pounds of iron,
24 XI | pounds of iron, and nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six
25 XII | that Joe, along with a thousand other virtues, has a remarkable
26 XII | height of more than three thousand feet, and to accomplish
27 XIII | Imenge.—Mount Rubeho.—Six Thousand Feet Elevation.—A Halt in
28 XIII | attained an altitude of four thousand feet, and the thermometer
29 XIII | to an elevation of five thousand feet.”~“Shall we often have
30 XIII | announced an elevation of six thousand feet.~“Shall we go this
31 XIII | earth has a height of six thousand fathoms,” said the doctor; “
32 XIII | ambitious.”~At the height of six thousand feet, the density of the
33 XIV | rose to the height of one thousand feet, where the balloon
34 XIV | average height of three thousand feet. Hence, the doctor
35 XV | her provincial tour every thousand years, feeling the necessity
36 XV | risen to the height of one thousand feet, and the black hung
37 XVI | she not? For about four thousand years she travailed, she
38 XVI | nourished them for the last two thousand years. But already her fertility
39 XVI | boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric
40 XVI | barometer; it announced twelve thousand feet of elevation. It was
41 XVIII | Captain Speke, say three thousand seven hundred and fifty
42 XVIII | balloon was lowered about two thousand feet.~“Now, my friends,
43 XX | course, was broken into a thousand fragments, while the negroes
44 XX | an age of more than four thousand years.”~“But then, sir,
45 XX | When one has lived four thousand years, one ought to be pretty
46 XX | those, for the last four thousand years, I have to offer it
47 XXII | up to an elevation of a thousand feet.~“What’s that?” said
48 XXII | rose to the height of six thousand feet, leaving between it
49 XXII | fiery crater from which a thousand jets of dazzling flame were
50 XXIII | had collected more than a thousand pieces of quartz, which
51 XXIV | invention of steam. It took six thousand years to invent propellers
52 XXVI | blood, his very life!~A thousand one such reflections whirled
53 XIX | birds with plumage of a thousand hues gleamed and fluttered
54 XIX | height is computed to be ten thousand feet! Their western slope
55 XIX | elevation of more than eight thousand feet, the greatest height
56 XXX | The Victoria, then one thousand feet above the soil, hardly
57 XXX | instantaneous movement of ten thousand arms at one time.~To these
58 XXXI | fist.”~“Because we are a thousand feet above them; but close
59 XXXII | sustains us, and we are three thousand feet up in the air!”~At
60 XXXII | ascending motion, mounted a thousand feet into the air, and the
61 XXXIII | balloon measured sixty-seven thousand cubic feet, and contained
62 XXXIII | and contained thirty-three thousand four hundred and eighty
63 XXXIII | balloon was then about three thousand pounds, and, in adding together
64 XXXIII | length, at the height of a thousand feet, a very violent breeze
65 XXXIV | the hurricane carry me a thousand miles to the northward,
66 XXXVII | the height of even four thousand feet. Giraffes, antelopes,
67 XXXVIII| commercial town to brave a thousand dangers in crossing the
68 XLIX | giving his companions a thousand details concerning the country
69 XL | however, will be undeniable: a thousand witnesses saw us start on
70 XL | African Continent, and a thousand more will see us arrive
71 XLI | predecessors. They had suffered a thousand privations and been exposed
72 XLI | privations and been exposed to a thousand dangers in the midst of
73 XLI | there’s enough to dress a thousand of them, for they’re not
74 XLII | upper extremity, and after a thousand difficulties, in holding
75 XLII | fastenings, spun upward a thousand feet into the air.~Frightful
76 XLIII | seen. With a breadth of two thousand feet, the Senegal precipitates
77 XLIV | hundred and seventy-seven thousand copies on the day when it
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