Chapter

 1 VI   | demonstrated that if a heat of 360,000 degrees [1] existed in the
 2 XI   |        that the Danish mile was 24,000 feet long, he was obliged
 3 XI   |           quinquennial prize of 50,000 franc reserved by the French
 4 XI   |         the proportion of 1 to 480,000 of the actual size of the
 5 XII  |          Europe. Its surface is 14,000 square miles, and it contains
 6 XII  |             and it contains but 16,000 inhabitants. Geographers
 7 XII  |           crowned by sharp peaks 2,000 feet high, and remarkable
 8 XV   |       SNÆFELL AT LAST~Snæfell is 5,000 feet high. Its double cone
 9 XVII |   extremity of the gigantic tube 3,000 feet long, now a vast telescope.~
10 XVIII|           observation we are at 10,000 feet below the level of
11 XXIII|         this column of water is 32,000 feet high — that is, from
12 XXX  |           which we estimated at 12,000 feet, a greater height than