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 1 VI    |    half-a-crown to buy you the ballast.”~
 2 VII   |      he could, by throwing out ballast, keep himself up with the
 3 VII   |   hydrogen............. 276 "~ Ballast............................
 4 VII   |     only two hundred pounds of ballast for “unforeseen emergencies,”
 5 IX    |    ascend only by throwing out ballast; you can descend only after
 6 IX    |        by these processes your ballast and your gas are soon exhausted.”~“
 7 X     |        at will, without losing ballast or gas from the balloon.
 8 X     |        start, I dispensed with ballast altogether, excepting as
 9 X     |    throwing out that weight of ballast. If I augment the temperature
10 X     |     have a certain quantity of ballast, which will enable me to
11 XI    |      The two hundred pounds of ballast were distributed in fifty
12 XVI   |      our two hundred pounds of ballast are untouched. In case of
13 XXI   |     have two hundred pounds of ballast left, since the bags we
14 XXI   |   still remain sixty pounds of ballast to throw out, in case we
15 XXI   |        throw out a quantity of ballast, equal to his weight, I
16 XXI   |  throwing out this overplus of ballast at a given moment, I am
17 XXI   |   proportionate to the surplus ballast that I had thrown out. Now,
18 XXI   |        see to throwing out the ballast, and Dick will carry off
19 XXII  |      the two hundred pounds of ballast.~The doctor had expected
20 XXIII |     Hallucinations.—A Precious Ballast.—A Survey of the Gold-bearing
21 XXIII |   proportionate to his loss of ballast at the time when he had
22 XXIII |      take some of that ore for ballast, instead of sand?”~“Very
23 XXIII |       you leave to replace the ballast; that was all!”~“But—”~“
24 XXIII |       have thrown off a little ballast.”~Joe scratched his ear,
25 XXVI  |       ascended by throwing out ballast, at the cost merely of discharging
26 XXVII |      the storm.~“Out with more ballast!” shouted the doctor.~“There!”
27 XXVIII|         Had any portion of the ballast been accidentally thrown
28 XXVIII|      threw out the superfluous ballast.~The travellers took one
29 XXX   |     Joe got ready to throw out ballast, and Ferguson was not long
30 XXXII | swiftly rising.~“Over with the ballast!” he shouted, “over with
31 XXXIII|  hundred and seventy pounds of ballast, for unforeseen emergencies,
32 XXXIII|       weight with a surplus of ballast. He spent the whole day
33 XXXVI |    hundred and fifty pounds of ballast in your arms?”~“Ay, more
34 XXXVI |     prepared to throw out that ballast at a single effort. But,
35 XXXVI |     shouted to Kennedy:~“Throw ballast!”~“It’s done!”~And the Victoria,
36 XLIX  |        have to throw over some ballast. We are too heavy.”~“That’