Chapter
1 I | the Canadian bank three miles from the falls.~The Englishman
2 I | extend for more than six miles round our spheroid.~Naturally
3 I | hundred thousand million miles away, could not explain
4 I | phenomenon occurring only a few miles off, what was the use of
5 I | over one hundred and twenty miles an hour.~In the United Kingdom
6 I | plateau less than thirty miles from the sea, having an
7 I | about four hundred and fifty miles an hour—that it did not
8 II | radius of three hundred miles, would return an annual
9 III | eleven hundred and fifty miles from St. Louis to Jefferson
10 IV | voyage of twelve hundred miles above the American continent,
11 VIII | a speed of seventy-five miles an hour.”~Such was the speed
12 VIII | railway trains do their sixty miles an hour; the ice-boats on
13 VIII | Hudson do their sixty-five miles an hour; a machine built
14 VIII | wheel, has done its eighty miles; and another locomotive
15 VIII | do her hundred and twenty miles an hour, or 176 feet per
16 VIII | range of vision by seventy miles, the barometer having fallen
17 VIII | bank to the other. Three miles below was a suspension-bridge,
18 IX | four thousand five hundred miles in length, stretching from
19 X | now more than six hundred miles from Omaha, and over a country
20 X | former speed of sixty-two miles an hour. She was steering
21 X | Only a hundred and eighty miles then separated them from
22 XI | perhaps for a distance of six miles, the “Albatross” was thus
23 XI | monster.~The twelve hundred miles of the Behring Sea between
24 XII | hundred and twenty-five miles of the Korean strait, and
25 XIII | Herat, nearly seven hundred miles from Cashmere.~In these
26 XIII | hundred and twenty-five miles long and two hundred wide,
27 XIII | an area of 17,000 square miles, and a depth of from sixty
28 XIV | from an express going sixty miles an hour is to risk your
29 XIV | going one hundred and twenty miles an hour would be to seek
30 XIV | is one hundred and twelve miles an hour.~At first the wind
31 XIV | covered the twelve hundred miles which separate Astrakhan
32 XIV | seven hundred and fifty miles. This was but a half-day’
33 XIV | for these twelve hundred miles! Verily it might be thought
34 XIV | of one hundred and twenty miles an hour.~This was all that
35 XIV | More than eighteen thousand miles had this wonderful machine
36 XV | Before night several hundred miles had been accomplished above
37 XV | tropic of Cancer. Six hundred miles from the northern frontier
38 XV | was then eleven hundred miles from the Wargla oasis and
39 XV | triangle of three or four miles in circumference; of having
40 XV | torn to pieces.~For some miles noisy flocks of storks,
41 XV | a fosse measuring twelve miles round, with wide, regular
42 XV | capital to a vast plain a few miles away surrounded by magnificent
43 XVI | forty-five million square miles of which the area of the
44 XVI | of the hundred and twenty miles an hour at which the “Albatross”
45 XVI | estimated at quite sixty miles an hour. The waves ran along
46 XVI | having accomplished 4,700 miles since she left Dahomey,
47 XVII | advanced about a hundred miles to the south the “Albatross”
48 XVII | the mate at last.~“Fifty miles from the Chili coast and
49 XVIII| of from twelve to fifteen miles an hour. But that was the
50 XVIII| more than three hundred miles an hour.~The “Albatross”
51 XVIII| Cape Horn; twelve hundred miles more and she would cross
52 XVIII| within fourteen hundred miles of the pole.~Irresistibly
53 XVIII| three hundred and fifty miles in nineteen hours, or about
54 XVIII| nineteen hours, or about three miles a minute, a speed almost
55 XVIII| only going about eighteen miles an hour. It was necessary
56 XIX | which measured about fifteen miles round, was like a three-pointed
57 XIX | two thousand eight hundred miles.”~“All the more reason to
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