Chapter

 1 I      |       two thousand five hundred pounds. The sum was made commensurate
 2 II     |      sum of twenty-five hundred pounds was voted to defray the
 3 V      |         more than five thousand pounds, and the Governor of the
 4 V      |    received about seven hundred pounds from the foreign office;
 5 VI     |         hundred and fifty-three pounds,” said the doctor, noting
 6 VI     |          One hundred and twenty pounds,” wrote the doctor.~“Ah!
 7 VI     |         hundred and thirty-five pounds to his own account.~“All
 8 VI     |     much more than four hundred pounds.”~“But, sir,” said Joe, “
 9 VI     |        myself thinner by twenty pounds, by not eating so much.”~“
10 VII    |         carry a weight of 4,000 pounds; therefore he had to find
11 VII    |         weight of four thousand pounds is represented by a displacement
12 VII    |       weigh about four thousand pounds.~By giving the balloon these
13 VII    |         hundred and seventy-six pounds—a difference of three thousand
14 VII    |         hundred and twenty-four pounds in equilibrium is produced;
15 VII    |   weighed six hundred and fifty pounds. The envelope of the second
16 VII    |      about five hundred and ten pounds, or say eleven hundred and
17 VII    |        eleven hundred and sixty pounds for both.~The network that
18 VII    |    exceed two hundred and fifty pounds.~In addition to the above,
19 VII    |         more than seven hundred pounds, even including twenty-five
20 VII    |                             135 pounds.~ Kennedy............................
21 VII    |                           4,000 pounds.~Such were the items of
22 VII    |      items of the four thousand pounds that Dr. Ferguson proposed
23 VII    |        He took only two hundred pounds of ballast for “unforeseen
24 X      |        ascensional power by 160 pounds. This is equivalent to throwing
25 X      |      will be augmented by 1,600 pounds.~“Thus, you see, gentlemen,
26 X      | constituent elements, yield 200 pounds of oxygen and 25 pounds
27 X      |         pounds of oxygen and 25 pounds of hydrogen. This represents,
28 XI     |  eighteen hundred and sixty-six pounds of sulphuric acid, sixteen
29 XI     |      sixteen thousand and fifty pounds of iron, and nine thousand
30 XI     |       Zanzibar. The two hundred pounds of ballast were distributed
31 XVI    |   cylinder, and our two hundred pounds of ballast are untouched.
32 XVII   | thirty-five guineas per hundred pounds.”~“As much as that?” said
33 XXI    |       plan: We have two hundred pounds of ballast left, since the
34 XXI    |         will still remain sixty pounds of ballast to throw out,
35 XXII   |     tossed over the two hundred pounds of ballast.~The doctor had
36 XXII   |      weighing about one hundred pounds, he tossed it overboard.
37 XXII   |       of one hundred and eighty pounds, and therefore kept aloft
38 XXIII  |      car more than five hundred pounds of stones, which enabled
39 XXIII  | fragment of about three or four pounds. At last he threw it out.~
40 XXIII  |      Joe now threw out some ten pounds, but the balloon stood still.~
41 XXIII  |    mistaken, about four hundred pounds—so that you’ll have to get
42 XXIII  |         Throw away four hundred pounds!” said Joe, piteously.~“
43 XXIV   |         death. But, the hundred pounds of water that we threw overboard
44 XXVII  |   doctor, “throw out some fifty pounds of your ore, there!”~Joe
45 XIX    |       of nearly sixteen hundred pounds, and it went up to an elevation
46 XXXIII |        of six hundred and fifty pounds, a weight not to be despised—
47 XXXIII |     were still left some thirty pounds of pemmican, a supply of
48 XXXIII |   reduced to about nine hundred pounds. He therefore had to count
49 XXXIII |       then about three thousand pounds, and, in adding together
50 XXXIII |       of water, and one hundred pounds of fresh meat, the doctor
51 XXXIII | twenty-eight hundred and thirty pounds. He could then take with
52 XXXIII |         one hundred and seventy pounds of ballast, for unforeseen
53 XXXVI  |      hold one hundred and fifty pounds of ballast in your arms?”~“
54 XXXVIII|     with a load of five hundred pounds upon their backs. Each animal
55 XLI    |         lightened by some fifty pounds, and it rose very perceptibly,
56 XLII   |   Buntzen battery. Nine hundred pounds make a rather heavy load
57 XLII   |   weight of hardly five hundred pounds, including the two anchors
58 XLIII  |   pemmican; that will be thirty pounds less weight to carry.”~“
59 XLIII  |      than one hundred and fifty pounds yet to throw out.”~“What
60 XLIII  |         grass; I want a hundred pounds of it, at least.”~“For what