Chapter
1 VI | for the doctor to know the weight of his companions, so as
2 VII | he should have to carry a weight of 4,000 pounds; therefore
3 VII | capable of raising such a weight, and, consequently, what
4 VII | would be its capacity.~A weight of four thousand pounds
5 VII | this difference between the weight of the gas contained in
6 VII | contained in the balloon and the weight of the surrounding atmosphere
7 VII | shock of collision. Its weight, along with that of the
8 VII | by little, diminish the weight to be sustained, for it
9 VII | an almost insignificant weight suffices to produce a very
10 VII | various items, and their weight, as he computed it:~ ~ Ferguson...........................
11 VII | 120 "~ Weight of the outside balloon......
12 VII | outside balloon...... 650 "~ Weight of the second balloon.......
13 VII | 700 "~ Weight of the hydrogen.............
14 VIII | did not exceed a certain weight prescribed by the doctor.~
15 X | equivalent to throwing out that weight of ballast. If I augment
16 X | inflated, it displaces a weight of air exactly equal to
17 XIV | us to take such an extra weight!”~“You’re right, Joe. Still
18 XIV | relieved of a considerable weight, would have kept up of itself,
19 XV | suddenly relieved of his weight, again shot up on her course.~
20 XVII | finally fell with all his weight upon one of his tusks, which
21 XXI | of ballast, equal to his weight, I shall have in nowise
22 XXII | taking into account the weight of the new passenger, had
23 XXIII | stones equal to his own weight. He could then use both
24 XXIII | get rid of at least that weight, since it was put in here
25 XXV | quantity of sand equal to their weight, and leaped out. They then
26 XXVI | absolutely motionless.~The weight of the three travellers
27 XXVIII | carry so considerable a weight with him through the air,
28 XXXIII | hundred and fifty pounds, a weight not to be despised—and the
29 XXXIII | calculating the relative weight of the articles still left
30 XXXIII | in adding together the weight of the apparatus, of the
31 XXXIII | the doctor got a total weight of twenty-eight hundred
32 XXXIII | and he made up for Joe’s weight with a surplus of ballast.
33 XXXVI | Victoria, lightened by a weight greater than Joe’s, shot
34 XXXVIII| but also the increase of weight which it caused by wetting
35 XL | something that would have given WEIGHT to our narrative! At a grain
36 XLI | rid of the awning, for its weight is quite considerable.”~
37 XLI | the balloon of his whole weight. He had to hold on with
38 XLII | We shall make in all a weight of hardly five hundred pounds,
39 XLII | relieved of this considerable weight, rose upright in the air
40 XLIII | will be thirty pounds less weight to carry.”~“Out it goes,
41 XLIII | every thing that has any weight, even to our last anchor,
42 XLIII | sufficient to diminish the weight of the air it contains to
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