Chapter
1 Pre | leagues (French), or 238,833 miles mean distance (English).~
2 Pre | reckoned at about 2,833 miles.~It ended with the double
3 I | will rise more than six miles in the air.”~“I have the
4 II | to pass through the forty miles of atmosphere which surrounds
5 II | has risen more than six miles. Now, Nicholl, pay up.”~“
6 II | thousand six hundred and fifty miles from the surface of the
7 II | made about twenty thousand miles in the hour.”~“That is all
8 IV | is at the rate of 68,000 miles per hour? Motion under such
9 VI | to a depth of forty-seven miles.”~“And that heat——”~“Would
10 VII | weight of a thread 250,000 miles long nothing?”~“As nothing.
11 X | did not exceed sixty-five miles, and in a medium free from
12 XII | seven hundred and fifty miles, which was a little greater
13 XII | little more than fourteen miles. The telescope of the Rocky
14 XII | of which measured twelve miles.~Toward the south, the plain
15 XII | not more than six hundred miles. Barbicane, now perceiving
16 XIII | distance of five hundred miles, reduced by the glasses
17 XIII | at the distance of five miles. What would an aeronaut,
18 XIII | distance not exceeding 40 miles. Through the glasses objects
19 XIII | appeared to be only four miles distant.~At this point,
20 XIII | farther than three and a half miles off; so that, if there are
21 XIII | distance was reduced to 300 miles. To the left ran a line
22 XIII | Its circuit is forty-seven miles long and thirty-two broad.~
23 XIII | brought them to within two miles, less than that separating
24 XIII | moon by a distance of fifty miles; nor even when, at five
25 XIII | at less than twenty-five miles from the mountain of Gioja,
26 XIV | at less than twenty-five miles distance. Some seconds had
27 XIV | in round numbers 400,000 miles. So that invisible face
28 XIV | round numbers to 400,000 miles, and the heat which she
29 XIV | the moon—about twenty-five miles only— why the projectile
30 XIV | there, perhaps only some few miles off; but neither he nor
31 XV | force, had been within four miles of grazing the satellite’
32 XV | pass at least within forty miles of the earth, but they seldom
33 XV | distance of at most 200 miles, ought, according to Barbicane,
34 XVII | pole at less than forty miles off, a distance equal to
35 XVII | distance of twenty-four miles (reduced to four by their
36 XVII | them little more than three miles in breadth. In France the
37 XVII | circle of Cantal measures six miles across; at Ceyland the circle
38 XVII | circle of the island is forty miles, which is considered the
39 XVII | asked Nicholl.~“It is 150 miles,” replied Barbicane. “This
40 XVII | measure 150, 100, or 75 miles.”~“Ah! my friends,” exclaimed
41 XVII | mountains spread over several miles. At the bottom of the immense
42 XVII | at a distance of 240,000 miles! Imagine, then, its intensity
43 XVII | a distance of only fifty miles! Seen through this pure
44 XVII | occupied by a crater fifty miles broad. It assumes a slightly
45 XVIII| the center, some twelve miles, others thirty miles broad.
46 XVIII| twelve miles, others thirty miles broad. These brilliant trains
47 XVIII| some places to within 600 miles of Tycho, and seemed to
48 XVIII| after a circuit of 800 miles. Others, toward the west,
49 XIX | from a height of 160,000 miles, and no springs to break
50 XIX | pavement at a speed of 240 miles per hour. Here the projectile
51 XIX | with a speed of 115,200 miles per hour.~“We are lost!”
52 XX | near in shore, and only 200 miles from the American coast?”~“
53 XX | Pacific Ocean about 200 miles off the American coast,
54 XX | the moon to within four miles of the Rocky Mountains,
55 XX | long, and sentences three miles long, and then they can
56 XXI | Four hundred and fifty miles to cross; it was nothing
57 XXII | failed! Immersed nearly four miles under the ocean, this metal
58 XXIII| at less than twenty-four miles distance had marked that
59 XXIII| of one hundred and sixty miles in the hour. But what was
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