Chapter

 1 I    |         tripled the stars a hundred thousand million miles away, could
 2 I    |           the Exposition of 1889, a thousand feet high, all of them beheld
 3 II   |    excellent speculation. The seven thousand five hundred cubic meters
 4 III  |          installment of the hundred thousand paper dollars he had paid
 5 III  |            syndicate. Three hundred thousand dollars came into the club’
 6 III  |             of his ascents out of a thousand, one in which he rose to
 7 III  |          rose to a height of twelve thousand yards, higher than Gay Lussac,
 8 III  |        large was Nadar’s Géant? Six thousand cubic meters. How large
 9 III  |         John Wise’s balloon? Twenty thousand cubic meters. How large
10 III  |             Exhibition? Twenty-five thousand cubic meters. Compare these
11 III  |            volume amounted to forty thousand cubic meters, and you will
12 VI   |             what did they see?~Four thousand feet below them the face
13 VIII |          think! A fall of over four thousand feet, which would smash
14 VIII |            the sun showed some four thousand feet below.~“I can hardly
15 VIII |             sheet of crystal amid a thousand rainbows due to refraction
16 IX   |            long line of rails, four thousand five hundred miles in length,
17 X    |             shouts were lost in the thousand cheers with which the passengers
18 X    |           the Tabernacle, where ten thousand saints can worship at their
19 XII  |       orchestra, gun reports by the thousand, mortars fired in hundreds,
20 XII  |             an altitude of thirteen thousand feet above the level of
21 XII  |            which exceed twenty-five thousand feet. In front of the “Albatross,”
22 XII  |             a height of twenty-nine thousand feet, towered Mount Everest.
23 XII  |    Dhawalagiri, reaching twenty-six thousand eight hundred feet, and
24 XII  |           at a height of twenty-two thousand feet. And towards it he
25 XII  |       barometer showed twenty-three thousand feet in altitude.~Magnificent
26 XII  |             glaciers descending ten thousand feet towards the base. There
27 XIII |         Albatross” shot up some six thousand feet into a purer atmosphere.~
28 XIII |          peak rises some twenty-two thousand feet, and the chain of Elbruz,
29 XIII |           crying, and writhing in a thousand contortions and grimaces.~“
30 XIII |         layers. She was about three thousand feet above the sea when
31 XIV  |           at a mean height of three thousand feet.~There was no diminution
32 XIV  |              the palaces, the sixty thousand houses, and swept the space
33 XIV  |          Europe! More than eighteen thousand miles had this wonderful
34 XV   |             from twelve to thirteen thousand inhabitants, formerly illustrious
35 XV   |         some seven or eight hundred thousand, including the neighboring
36 XV   |            there were drawn up four thousand warriors, one of the contigents
37 XV   |          these Amazons, five or six thousand men in cotton drawers and
38 XV   |       Dahomians.~There were sixteen thousand people at least come from
39 XV   |            son had dispatched three thousand, and Bou-Nadi could not
40 XVI  |             of Magellan, rising six thousand four hundred feet from the
41 XVIII|          region, accomplishing four thousand three hundred and fifty
42 XIX  |           south of X Island, or two thousand eight hundred miles.”~“All
43 XX   |           obliquely to nearly three thousand feet. It was necessary to
44 XX   |             went aloft to about ten thousand feet. There, if she did
45 XX   |         abyss.~It was a fall of ten thousand feet for the eight men who
46 XXI  |          police on the track. “Five thousand dollars! Five thousand dollars
47 XXI  |         Five thousand dollars! Five thousand dollars to any citizen who
48 XXI  |          Nothing was done. The five thousand dollars remained with the
49 XXI  |        seized he had on him several thousand paper dollars, much more
50 XXII | supra-terrestrial domain.~A hundred thousand hands were placed in answer
51 XXII |       placed in answer on a hundred thousand hearts, and a hundred thousand
52 XXII |      thousand hearts, and a hundred thousand other hands were lifted
53 XXII |        reached a height of fourteen thousand feet. But the air was so
54 XXII |         shout followed by a hundred thousand more. All hands were stretched
55 XXII |           was repeated by a hundred thousand mouths:~“The “Albatross!”
56 XXIII|        attained a height of sixteen thousand feet.~The “Albatross” followed
57 XXIII|            made a new leap of three thousand feet; she was now but a
58 XXIII|          she was not more than four thousand feet from the ground.~Would