Chapter

 1 I    |    Exposition of 1889, a thousand feet high, all of them beheld
 2 III  |         fall from fifteen hundred feet at the cost of a slight
 3 III  |           fell only seven hundred feet, and yet killed himself
 4 IV   |       bellows; arms, hands, legs, feet, all worthy of the trunk.
 5 IV   |         can walk on it with naked feet. Or if, by means of a screw,
 6 VI   |      quite dark, though about six feet above him a feeble gleam
 7 VI   |           they see?~Four thousand feet below them the face of a
 8 VII  |         was a framework a hundred feet long and twelve wide, a
 9 VIII |        fall of over four thousand feet, which would smash him to
10 VIII |         showed some four thousand feet below.~“I can hardly believe
11 VIII |      twenty miles an hour, or 176 feet per second. This speed is
12 VIII |        flight of the swallow (220 feet per second) and that of
13 VIII |        and that of the swift (274 feet per second).~In a word,
14 VIII |      attained the height of 8,700 feet, and extended the range
15 IX   |          of the grass under their feet produced a dull roaring
16 X    |         elevation of about 10,000 feet above the sea. The aeronef
17 X    |        been at a height of 13,000 feet, and behind her were mountains
18 X    |           vertical torrent twenty feet round and more than two
19 X    |         and more than two hundred feet high.~Robur must evidently
20 XI   |           height of seven hundred feet or more.~At first he kept
21 XI   |        which measure about eighty feet in length. These are the
22 XI   |         and remained, about fifty feet above it.~There was no ship
23 XI   |         when she was within sixty feet of it she stopped dead.~
24 XI   |         gliding about twenty-five feet above him. His tail was
25 XI   |          sprang aloft six hundred feet under the impulse of her
26 XI   |       which are from six to seven feet long, russet in color, and
27 XI   |           nearly thirteen hundred feet thick, and the ascensional
28 XII  |       last a shell exploded a few feet below the “Albatross,” and
29 XII  |     altitude of thirteen thousand feet above the level of the sea.
30 XII  |       exceed twenty-five thousand feet. In front of the “Albatross,”
31 XII  |           of twenty-nine thousand feet, towered Mount Everest.
32 XII  | twenty-six thousand eight hundred feet, and relegated to second
33 XII  |     height of twenty-two thousand feet. And towards it he went.~
34 XII  |      showed twenty-three thousand feet in altitude.~Magnificent
35 XII  |           descending ten thousand feet towards the base. There
36 XIII |          descend to within thirty feet of the river and remained
37 XIII |        them. They were only a few feet from the surface of the
38 XIII |         he must keep at least six feet above the ground.~In a moment
39 XIII |         shot up some six thousand feet into a purer atmosphere.~
40 XIII |          some twenty-two thousand feet, and the chain of Elbruz,
41 XIII |           was about three hundred feet above the Caspian.~There
42 XIII |           to within a few hundred feet of the ground. Now there
43 XIII |           about fifteen or twenty feet above the water. A few ships,
44 XIII |        from sixty to four hundred feet, would flood the low marshy
45 XIII |           splendid sturgeon seven feet long, called by the Russians
46 XIII |        was paid out for a hundred feet and Frycollin found himself
47 XIII |          was about three thousand feet above the sea when a clap
48 XIII |          had sunk several hundred feet she was still in the thick
49 XIII |         Albatross” was only sixty feet from the crest of the waves.
50 XIV  |          height of three thousand feet.~There was no diminution
51 XIV  |          was within a few hundred feet of the ground. Robur then
52 XV   |          was within three hundred feet of the ground, and for the
53 XV   |        within a hundred and fifty feet of the ground. Uncle Prudent
54 XVI  |          ran along at about eight feet from one another, tracing
55 XVI  |       than usual, about a hundred feet from the level of the sea.
56 XVI  |         six thousand four hundred feet from the sea. And now they
57 XVI  |           long snowshoes on their feet were swiftly gliding over
58 XVII |          the boat was only eighty feet below him.~There was no
59 XVII |       boat, attached to a hundred feet of rope, began to move off
60 XVIII|       cable one hundred and fifty feet long with an anchor at the
61 XIX  |     height—one hundred and, fifty feet—the island which measured
62 XIX  |        mountain about two hundred feet high.~No natives were to
63 XIX  |        only one hundred and fifty feet from the ground!~The work
64 XIX  |          the cable with hands and feet slipped down it safe and
65 XIX  |           was not more than fifty feet from the ground.~In a few
66 XX   |          to nearly three thousand feet. It was necessary to increase
67 XX   |      Albatross” was a few hundred feet from the waves she stopped.
68 XX   |       aloft to about ten thousand feet. There, if she did not remain
69 XX   |          We are going about forty feet a second. We ought, to be
70 XX   |        was a fall of ten thousand feet for the eight men who were
71 XXII |           had been floating a few feet from the ground ready to
72 XXII |       about one hundred and fifty feet above the clearing, and
73 XXII |         altitude of eight hundred feet.~Then she began her horizontal
74 XXII |       height of fourteen thousand feet. But the air was so free
75 XXIII|        height of sixteen thousand feet.~The “Albatross” followed
76 XXIII|        new leap of three thousand feet; she was now but a dot in
77 XXIII|           more than four thousand feet from the ground.~Would Robur
78 XXIII|            Albatross” stopped six feet from the ground. Then, amid