Chapter
1 I | creaked upon its hinges; heavy feet made the whole flight of
2 VI | a mountain five thousand feet high, one of the most remarkable
3 VI | one degree for every 70 feet in depth; now, admitting
4 VIII | accelerate the train with his feet.~At last he discerned a
5 VIII | morning, at last, we set our feet in Copenhagen; the luggage
6 VIII | was ordered to direct my feet that way; I embarked on
7 XI | the Danish mile was 24,000 feet long, he was obliged to
8 XI | for the ladder was 300 feet long.~And there were provisions
9 XII | crowned by sharp peaks 2,000 feet high, and remarkable for
10 XIII | disappeared from beneath our feet. Not a tree was to be seen,
11 XIV | vertical columns thirty feet high. These straight shafts,
12 XIV | She must have been six feet at the least. I was in great
13 XV | AT LAST~Snæfell is 5,000 feet high. Its double cone forms
14 XV | places a depth of seventy feet, and presented layers of
15 XV | rolled away from under our feet, and rushed down the precipice
16 XV | Three thousand two hundred feet below us stretched the sea.
17 XV | fifteen hundred remaining feet took us five hours to clear;
18 XV | island that slept at my feet.~
19 XVI | anxious one, at five thousand feet above the sea level. Yet
20 XVI | s raised maps lay at my feet. I could see deep valleys
21 XVI | to be about two thousand feet. Imagine the aspect of such
22 XVI | the funnel was about 250 feet in circuit, so that the
23 XVI | these chimneys was a hundred feet in diameter. They gaped
24 XVII | mentioned that it was a hundred feet in diameter, and three hundred
25 XVII | diameter, and three hundred feet round. I bent over a projecting
26 XVII | finger, and four hundred feet long; first he dropped half
27 XVII | its hold; when two hundred feet down, it would be easy to
28 XVII | descended another two hundred feet.~I don’t suppose the maddest
29 XVII | descended was fourteen times 200 feet, or 2,800 feet.~At this
30 XVII | times 200 feet, or 2,800 feet.~At this moment I heard
31 XVII | I was going to place my feet upon my uncle’s head.~“We
32 XVII | the gigantic tube 3,000 feet long, now a vast telescope.~
33 XVIII | by a projection a hundred feet above us. Immediately the
34 XVIII | which formed steps under our feet became stalactites overhead.
35 XVIII | Fahr.) for every hundred feet. But certain local conditions
36 XVIII | ascertained to be reached every 36 feet. This difference depends
37 XVIII | only attained at every 125 feet. Let us therefore assume
38 XVIII | hundred and twenty-five feet gives a depth of eleven
39 XVIII | hundred and twenty-five feet.”~“Very accurate indeed.”~“
40 XVIII | observation we are at 10,000 feet below the level of the sea.”~“
41 XVIII | a depth of six thousand feet beyond that hitherto reached
42 XIX | vegetable and animal species. My feet, which had become accustomed
43 XX | well opening before his feet, down which our descent
44 XX | cavern was about a hundred feet wide and a hundred and fifty
45 XXIII | a passage inclining two feet in seven. In an hour we
46 XXIII | and descended two thousand feet.~Then I began to hear distinctly
47 XXIII | me at a distance of two feet with extreme violence. But
48 XXIII | of the tunnel, at three feet from the ground.~I was stirred
49 XXIII | had soon penetrated two feet into the granite partition,
50 XXIII | Hans, almost thrown off his feet by the violence of the shock,
51 XXIII | column of water is 32,000 feet high — that is, from the
52 XXIV | murmuring of the stream at my feet.~We breakfasted, and drank
53 XXIV | gently murmuring at our feet. I compared it to a friendly
54 XXIV | leagues and a half.~At our feet there now opened a frightful
55 XXVI | stupefaction and utter dismay my feet trod only — the rough dry
56 XXVI | stream was no longer at my feet.~
57 XXVII | strength? Who could place my feet on the right path, and bring
58 XXVII | road. With the stream at my feet, I might hope to regain
59 XXVIII | those are words!”~Even a few feet from the wall I could hear
60 XXVIII | Now, at the rate of 1,120 feet in a second, this is 22,
61 XXVIII | a second, this is 22,400 feet, or four miles and a quarter,
62 XXX | which we estimated at 12,000 feet, a greater height than that
63 XXX | it to the depth of 2,500 feet, it probably did not extend
64 XXX | roof rises five hundred feet [1] above the level of an
65 XXX | circumference of eight or nine feet; but here were pale mushrooms,
66 XXX | mushrooms, thirty to forty feet high, and crowned with a
67 XXX | lycopodiums, a hundred feet high; the huge sigillaria,
68 XXX | at that dust under your feet; see the bones scattered
69 XXXI | sea will rise about twelve feet.”~“This is wonderful,” I
70 XXXI | raft was made. It was ten feet by five; the planks of surturbrand,
71 XXXII | depth of twelve thousand feet, reproduce themselves under
72 XXXII | three or four thousand feet long, undulating like vast
73 XXXII | treading with unsteady feet the coloured marls and the
74 XXXII | and lycopods, a hundred feet high.~Ages seem no more
75 XXXIII | of these creatures thirty feet in length. Am I then fated —
76 XXXIII | terrible; a tortoise forty feet long, and a serpent of thirty,
77 XXXIII | not less than a hundred feet long, and I can judge of
78 XXXIII | as a swan’s, rises thirty feet above the waves.~Those huge
79 XXXIV | a height of five hundred feet falls in rain with a deafening
80 XXXIV | shivers and shakes under our feet, like the sides of an overheated
81 XXXV | melting heat, it drops at my feet, spinning silently round
82 XXXV | it, and carry me off my feet ....~Ah! what a flood of
83 XXXVII | rock. We trampled under our feet numberless shells of all
84 XXXVII | carapaces more than fifteen feet in diameter. They had been
85 XXXVII | crackling and rattling, our feet were trampling on the remains
86 XXXVIII| a human jawbone fourteen feet beneath the surface. It
87 XXXVIII| those of a giant nineteen feet high. I have gone through
88 XXXVIII| said, “that it is not six feet long, and that we are still
89 XXXIX | stature he was at least twelve feet high. His head, huge and
90 XXXIX | hitherto touched by our feet, I often perceived groups
91 XL | almost round, was about five feet in diameter; the dark passage
92 XLII | tunnel not four-and-twenty feet in diameter The water had
93 XLII | seems to me of fourteen feet in a second, or ten miles
94 XLIV | a height of five hundred feet or more, we saw the crater
95 XLIV | for eight or nine hundred feet, giving the mountain a height
96 XLIV | of about 1,300 or 1,400 feet. But the base of the mountain
97 XLIV | bathed our faces, hands, and feet.~Whilst we were thus enjoying
98 XLIV | exclamations with hands and feet, as well as with words.
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