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1 Pre | velocity was fixed at twelve thousand yards to the second. Launched
2 I | loaded without accident, six thousand dollars.”~“Yes,” replied
3 I | will have to count nine thousand dollars to the president;
4 I | dollars to the president; four thousand because the Columbiad will
5 I | will not burst, and five thousand because the projectile will
6 II | question suggested to the thousand spectators of this moving
7 II | lost his two bets: four thousand dollars because the Columbiad
8 II | Columbiad did not burst; five thousand dollars because the projectile
9 II | that I have lost my nine thousand dollars. But a new hypothesis
10 II | Ardan.~“Here are the nine thousand dollars,” said the captain,
11 II | it, we were exactly four thousand six hundred and fifty miles
12 II | terrestrial globe.”~“More than two thousand French leagues,” exclaimed
13 II | initiatory speed of twelve thousand yards has been kept up,
14 II | shall have made about twenty thousand miles in the hour.”~“That
15 II | counted as many as twenty-four thousand in an hour. But Michel Ardan,
16 III | and coming, busy with a thousand details; at one time bent
17 IV | said Barbicane.~“Twelve thousand yards.”~“What!” exclaimed
18 IV | starting; “you say——”~“Twelve thousand yards.”~“The devil!” cried
19 IV | have been——”~“Seventeen thousand yards.”~“And the Cambridge
20 IV | Observatory declared that twelve thousand yards was enough at starting;
21 V | initiatory velocity of seventeen thousand yards in the first second
22 VI | have been broken into a thousand pieces, and we with it.”~“
23 VIII | CHAPTER VIII~AT SEVENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN
24 VIII | hundred and twenty-four thousand times greater, and the attraction
25 IX | moon, which was only two thousand leagues distant, that its
26 XII | was a ringed mountain nine thousand feet high, and one of those
27 XVIII| to zero!”~“Four hundred thousand years!” exclaimed Michel. “
28 XX | asked the captain.~“Three thousand six hundred and twenty-seven
29 XXI | set off immediately. Two thousand fathoms of line were still
30 XXI | without answering one of the thousand questions addressed to them.~
31 XXIII| divided into a hundred thousand shares of a thousand dollars
32 XXIII| hundred thousand shares of a thousand dollars each, under the
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