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 1 Pre |     ninety-seven hours, thirteen minutes, and twenty seconds. Consequently,
 2 I   |                 CHAPTER I~TWENTY MINUTES PAST TEN TO FORTY-SEVEN
 3 I   |          PAST TEN TO FORTY-SEVEN MINUTES PAST TEN P. M.~As ten o’
 4 I   |        chronometer marked twenty minutes past ten P.M. when the three
 5 I   |           said he, “it is twenty minutes past ten. At forty- seven
 6 I   |        past ten. At forty- seven minutes past ten Murchison will
 7 I   |          still have twenty-seven minutes to remain on the earth.”~“
 8 I   |          the earth.”~“Twenty-six minutes thirteen seconds,” replied
 9 I   |        may be done in twenty-six minutes. The gravest questions of
10 I   |          even solved. Twenty-six minutes well employed are worth
11 I   |          that we have twenty-six minutes left,” replied Ardan.~“Twenty-four
12 I   |         said Ardan; “twenty-four minutes in which to investigate——”~“
13 I   |         sound before twenty-four minutes are over.”~“Twenty,” said
14 I   |   captain. “We’ve still thirteen minutes and a half.”~“That Nicholl
15 I   |   replied Nicholl. “Thirty-seven minutes six seconds past ten.”~“
16 I   |      understand you.”~“Forty-two minutes past ten!” said Nicholl.~“
17 I   |         said Nicholl.~“Only five minutes more!” answered Barbicane.~“
18 I   |     Barbicane.~“Yes, five little minutes!” replied Michel Ardan; “
19 I   |        of the disc.~“Forty-seven minutes past ten!” murmured the
20 II  |         corpses into space?~Some minutes after the departure of the
21 II  |          to me. It is fifty-five minutes past ten; we have been gone
22 II  |       have been gone about eight minutes; and if our initiatory speed
23 II  |        in three hours and twenty minutes, which implies a wonderful
24 II  |          and it is only thirteen minutes since we left the American
25 II  |       continent.”~“Only thirteen minutes?” said Barbicane.~“Yes,”
26 III |      calculator, looked over the minutes of their passage, and worked
27 IV  |      asked Barbicane, after some minutes’ silence.~“Well!” replied
28 V   |   understand how, after thirteen minutes only, we met the second
29 VI  |        over five hours and forty minutes, half of that assigned to
30 VIII|         swoon, which lasted some minutes, the captain, recovering
31 VIII|        upon the earth after some minutes.”~“That is a strong remark.”~“
32 IX  |      ninety-seven hours thirteen minutes and twenty seconds; which
33 IX  |         of December, at thirteen minutes and twenty-five seconds
34 XIV |     prepared the repast in a few minutes. But they ate for eating’
35 XV  |        and must reach it in some minutes. As it approached it grew
36 XV  |      themselves up for lost.~Two minutes after the sudden appearance
37 XVI |          vapor.~About forty-five minutes past five in the evening,
38 XVII|       replied Michel Ardan.~Some minutes after passing Newton, the
39 XIX |        determine its fall.~“Five minutes to one,” said Nicholl.~“
40 XX  |         moment (it was seventeen minutes past one in the morning)
41 XXI |        December, at twenty-seven minutes past one at night, she entered
42 XXI |          other at the door.~Some minutes later a fourfold telegram
43 XXI |        of December, at seventeen minutes past one in the morning,
44 XXI |      Commander Susquehanna.~Five minutes afterward the whole town
45 XXII| Susquehanna was found to be some minutes westward of the spot where
46 XXII|      exact point.~At forty-seven minutes past twelve they reached
47 XXII|     descent began at twenty-five minutes past one at night, and the
48 XXII|          was rapid. At seventeen minutes past two, J. T. Maston and
49 XXII|       The corvette advanced some minutes to westward, and the apparatus,