Chapter
1 Pre | fixed at twelve thousand yards to the second. Launched
2 II | speed of more than 11,000 yards, which was enough to traverse
3 II | initiatory speed of 12,000 yards, on leaving the atmosphere
4 II | would be reduced to 9,165 yards. In any case we have already
5 II | asteroid passed several hundred yards from the projectile and
6 II | speed of twelve thousand yards has been kept up, we shall
7 IV | Barbicane.~“Twelve thousand yards.”~“What!” exclaimed Barbicane,
8 IV | say——”~“Twelve thousand yards.”~“The devil!” cried the
9 IV | been——”~“Seventeen thousand yards.”~“And the Cambridge Observatory
10 IV | declared that twelve thousand yards was enough at starting;
11 V | velocity of seventeen thousand yards in the first second was
12 V | speed had only been 12,000 yards at starting. We are still
13 V | exceeded the required 12,000 yards. Now I can understand how,
14 VI | rather more than 10,936 cubic yards English.~ “And it does
15 VI | flattened sack floating some yards from the projectile. This
16 IX | him to be more than 200 yards, or about 170 leagues a
17 X | to within less than 1,500 yards!~
18 XIII | varied from 1,000 to 1,500 yards, and that their borders
19 XV | have a diameter of 2,000 yards. It advanced at a speed
20 XVII | the glasses to within 450 yards. They did not again leave
21 XVIII| continent at a distance of 500 yards at most, and that nothing
22 XIX | Columbiad, a speed of 16,000 yards in the last second.~But
23 XXII | their chamber along some yards above the bottom.~Thus they
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