Chapter

 1 Pre  |     which realized nearly L1,200,000, they began the gigantic
 2 Pre  |        charge should contain 400,000 pounds of gun-cotton, which,
 3 I    |        projectile are rammed 400,000 pounds of gun-cotton, which
 4 I    |          which is equal to 1,600,000 pounds of ordinary powder!
 5 II   | initiatory speed of more than 11,000 yards, which was enough
 6 II   |        an initiatory speed of 12,000 yards, on leaving the atmosphere
 7 IV   |    however, is at the rate of 68,000 miles per hour? Motion under
 8 V    |         are already more than 50,000 leagues from the earth.
 9 V    |       its speed had only been 12,000 yards at starting. We are
10 V    |       under the power of the 400,000 pounds of gun-cotton, must
11 V    |         exceeded the required 12,000 yards. Now I can understand
12 V    |         the earth at more than 2,000 leagues’ distance.”~“And
13 V    |      such a projectile only at 8,000 leagues instead of 80,000,
14 V    |        000 leagues instead of 80,000, which would require the
15 V    |         have undergone a heat 28,000 times greater than that
16 VI   |     equal to that produced by 16,000 globes of coal, each equal
17 VI   |          heat equal to that of 4,000 masses of coal of an equal
18 VII  |      moon, and we need only go 8,000 leagues in order to fall
19 VII  |       the weight of a thread 250,000 miles long nothing?”~“As
20 VIII |       that an object weighing 70,000 pounds on the earth would
21 VIII |       weigh— let me see— about 5,000 pounds, a weight which you
22 IX   |  Barbicane, “in a distance of 84,000 leagues, it wanted no more
23 X    |       orb of night, magnified 48,000 times, is brought to within
24 X    |         apparent) of less than 2,000 leagues from the earth.
25 XIII |        has not been more than 25,000 feet.~This, however, is
26 XIII |      their breadth varied from 1,000 to 1,500 yards, and that
27 XIV  |          or in round numbers 400,000 miles. So that invisible
28 XIV  |          in round numbers to 400,000 miles, and the heat which
29 XIV  |       constellations which in 12,000 years, by reason of the
30 XV   |          to have a diameter of 2,000 yards. It advanced at a
31 XVII |          overlooked by a peak 15,000 feet high.~Around the plain
32 XVII |      though at a distance of 240,000 miles! Imagine, then, its
33 XVII |        plain from a height of 15,000 feet. It is a group of Mont
34 XVIII|       will after a period of 400,000 years, be brought down to
35 XVIII|          we had not more than 50,000 years to live.”~Barbicane
36 XIX  |       fall, from a height of 160,000 miles, and no springs to
37 XIX  |         Columbiad, a speed of 16,000 yards in the last second.~
38 XXII |          the projectile being 20,000 feet under the water! And
39 XXII |          terrible shock which 20,000 feet of water had perhaps
40 XXII |        without danger, for at 20,000 feet below the surface of
41 XXII |       tons, or in other words 56,000 pounds, and that consequently