Chapter

 1 Pre  |           30th of November, at the hour fixed upon, from the midst
 2 I    |       before another quarter of an hour you will have to count nine
 3 II   |       twenty thousand miles in the hour.”~“That is all very well,
 4 II   |         twenty-four thousand in an hour. But Michel Ardan, disdaining
 5 II   |          more than a quarter of an hour, when Barbicane sat up suddenly,
 6 III  |         its first impressions, and hour after hour took notes of
 7 III  |        impressions, and hour after hour took notes of all facts
 8 IV   |           rate of 68,000 miles per hour? Motion under such conditions
 9 IV   |         required formula.”~Half an hour had not elapsed before Barbicane,
10 VI   |            to meet it at the given hour. All around the black vault
11 VIII | suffocation, but by combustion. An hour later, the air less charged
12 VIII |     attractions scarcely lasted an hour; the travelers felt themselves
13 IX   |           the disc was at least an hour’s work. It was past twelve
14 XIV  |      docility; and a quarter of an hour after, draw it in.”~“With
15 XIV  |     Barbicane waited until half an hour had elapsed, which was more
16 XV   |            nature exactly. Half an hour after being sighted, this
17 XIX  |            two in the morning; the hour mattered little. Michel
18 XIX  |        December was beginning. One hour more, and the point of equal
19 XIX  |           a speed of 240 miles per hour. Here the projectile must
20 XIX  |         speed of 115,200 miles per hour.~“We are lost!” said Michel
21 XXI  |            us go!”~A quarter of an hour after the two savants were
22 XXIII|     hundred and sixty miles in the hour. But what was this speed