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 1 I    |     stand a lease of a hundred years. You smile, Barbicane. Have
 2 I    |     worth more than twenty-six years in which nothing is done.
 3 V    |     appeared some thousands of years before those of the earth,
 4 V    |       hundreds of thousands of years, and if their brain is of
 5 V    |           When?”~“Thousands of years before man appeared on earth.”~“
 6 VII  |        of Florida? In eighteen years’ time will she not occupy
 7 XIV  | constellations which in 12,000 years, by reason of the succession
 8 XVIII|      after a period of 400,000 years, be brought down to zero!”~“
 9 XVIII|          Four hundred thousand years!” exclaimed Michel. “Ah!
10 XVIII|       had not more than 50,000 years to live.”~Barbicane and