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 1 Pre |        which is exactly 86,410 leagues (French), or 238,833 miles
 2 Pre |       apparent distance of two leagues. The honorable secretary
 3 II  |       than two thousand French leagues,” exclaimed Michel Ardan. “
 4 V   |       already more than 50,000 leagues from the earth. We have
 5 V   |       earth at more than 2,000 leagues’ distance.”~“And this explanation
 6 V   |       projectile only at 8,000 leagues instead of 80,000, which
 7 VII |      and we need only go 8,000 leagues in order to fall upon the
 8 VIII|      FIVE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN LEAGUES~What had happened? Whence
 9 VIII|       journey, i.e., at 78,514 leagues from the earth. At this
10 IX  |        reality a fall of 8,296 leagues on an orb, it is true, where
11 IX  |    which was only two thousand leagues distant, that its speed
12 IX  |        aim at no more than 700 leagues. The speed of the projectile
13 IX  |        200 yards, or about 170 leagues a second. Under the centripetal
14 IX  |        in a distance of 84,000 leagues, it wanted no more to make
15 X   | estimated at about two hundred leagues. Under these conditions,
16 X   |   apparent distance of sixteen leagues. And more than that, with
17 X   |        to within less than two leagues, and objects having a diameter
18 X   |   apparent) of less than 2,000 leagues from the earth. But then,
19 XII |   diameter of about twenty-two leagues. The glasses discovered
20 XIII|       measured from 400 to 500 leagues in length; that their breadth