Chapter

 1 I    |         Goat Island, the neutral ground. between the falls. Let
 2 I    |      that it did not fall to the ground, and that it passed into
 3 VI   |          resting directly on the ground of the clearing. And the
 4 VIII | gradually shut off a view of the ground.~Robur, seeing that the
 5 VIII |       Robur put them back on the ground they could resume full liberty
 6 VIII |       but a luminous spot on the ground.~It was almost two hours
 7 X    |          to the elevation of the ground. An hour before she had
 8 X    |     diagonally as she neared the ground. She had even dropped several
 9 X    |      swiftly dropped towards the ground, and at the same time such
10 XI   |        Albatross” again took the ground. Such was what Phil Evans
11 XI   |         feels it is not on solid ground. His first glance was at
12 XIII |         least six feet above the ground.~In a moment all the chances
13 XIII |      pleadings to be put “on the ground.”~Without replying to this
14 XIII |          few hundred feet of the ground. Now there are on board
15 XIII |       would flood the low marshy ground to its north and east. Although
16 XIV  |          few hundred feet of the ground. Robur then came out of
17 XV   |         along the surface of the ground like a bore on the surface
18 XV   |         seems to escape from the ground.~Only one thing happened.
19 XV   |        three hundred feet of the ground, and for the first time
20 XV   |    hundred and fifty feet of the ground. Uncle Prudent and Phil
21 XV   |          and as they reached the ground exploded like so many small
22 XVI  |    aeronef and never came to the ground was impossible. How could
23 XVI  |     animals, to the holes in the ground.~The “Albatross” still held
24 XVIII|     distinguish the shape of the ground, the extent of the seas,
25 XIX  |         was probably because the ground was uneven and did not offer
26 XIX  |          and fifty feet from the ground!~The work was only interrupted
27 XIX  |       vertically downward to the ground.~Uncle Prudent and his colleague,
28 XIX  |         it safe and sound to the ground.~Think of their joy at again
29 XIX  |         long—at walking on solid ground and being no longer the
30 XIX  |      Albatross” sank towards the ground.~At this moment the voice
31 XIX  |         than fifty feet from the ground.~In a few seconds the cable
32 XXII |     floating a few feet from the ground ready to rise in mid-air.
33 XXIII|   direction, not dropping to the ground, for the aeronef would have
34 XXIII|      four thousand feet from the ground.~Would Robur destroy her?~
35 XXIII| appalling silence reigned on the ground. It seemed as though life
36 XXIII|        stopped six feet from the ground. Then, amid profound silence,