Chapter

 1 I    |     hundred and twenty miles an hour.~In the United Kingdom there
 2 I    |        the same night, the same hour, the same minute, the same
 3 I    |      hundred and fifty miles an hour—that it did not fall to
 4 II   |        for a good quarter of an hour.~The room was one of the
 5 V    |       they could tell. After an hour’s hunt the members had to
 6 VI   |         dead than alive.~For an hour the position of the prisoners
 7 VI   |       morning for it is at that hour in the month of June in
 8 VIII |        at about eleven knots an hour.~As they leaned over the
 9 VIII |        smash him to a jelly!~An hour afterwards Uncle Prudent
10 VIII |        of seventy-five miles an hour.”~Such was the speed of
11 VIII |       their twenty-two knots an hour; railway trains do their
12 VIII |         do their sixty miles an hour; the ice-boats on the frozen
13 VIII |       their sixty-five miles an hour; a machine built by the
14 VIII |     hundred and twenty miles an hour, or 176 feet per second.
15 IX   |       over for some time.~In an hour the “Albatross” had left
16 X    |     elevation of the ground. An hour before she had been at a
17 X    |         In three quarters of an hour the lake was overpassed,
18 X    |     speed of sixty-two miles an hour. She was steering southwest
19 X    |  original speed, and in half an hour the express was out of sight.
20 XI   |   towing dangerous.~For half an hour, and perhaps for a distance
21 XII  |      the last three days.~In an hour they had traversed the hundred
22 XIII |       the Hydaspes.~For half an hour only did she descend to
23 XIII |        charge for transport.~An hour’s work sufficed to fill
24 XIII |      his cabin.~During the last hour the air had been strangely
25 XIII |    going at over sixty knots an hour, that the tub was a long
26 XIV  |    express going sixty miles an hour is to risk your life, but
27 XIV  |     hundred and twenty miles an hour would be to seek your death.~
28 XIV  |     hundred and twelve miles an hour.~At first the wind was in
29 XIV  |  loitering, lasted for about an hour. It was a halt for breath
30 XIV  |     hundred and twenty miles an hour.~This was all that was to
31 XV   |         his predecessor. For an hour there was a series of discourses,
32 XVI  |     hundred and twenty miles an hour at which the “Albatross”
33 XVI  |         at quite sixty miles an hour. The waves ran along at
34 XVIII|      twelve to fifteen miles an hour. But that was the utmost
35 XVIII|     this, but now he had not an hour, perhaps not a minute, to
36 XVIII|     than three hundred miles an hour.~The “Albatross” had thus
37 XVIII|       by Sir James Ross. And an hour later, in calculating the
38 XVIII|        a gigantic butterfly?~An hour of intense excitement followed.
39 XVIII|        was in full eruption.~An hour afterwards the horizon hid
40 XVIII|         about eighteen miles an hour. It was necessary not to
41 XX   |        This would take about an hour. That done, the “Albatross”
42 XX   |        be over the island in an hour.”~“Yes, sir. We are going
43 XXI  |     describe.~From a very early hour conversation was entirely
44 XXI  | telephones, and in less than an hour all America heard of it