Chapter

 1 1 |        height of fifteen hundred feet, and there rested almost
 2 1 |         disappear from under the feet of the fugitives! Would
 3 3 |      Dome, nearly seven thousand feet high, reared its gigantic
 4 3 |     scarce exceeds five thousand feet. A modest altitude, often
 5 3 |         more than three thousand feet above sea level, the fatigue
 6 3 |      trickled downward under our feet. During the rainy season
 7 3 |          find us several hundred feet below it.~Toward ten o’clock,
 8 3 |          gained some two hundred feet further upward and found
 9 3 |     selected for our ascent. Our feet found lodgment in the firmer
10 3 |          us, less than a hundred feet away, but towering a hundred
11 3 |           but towering a hundred feet straight upwards in the
12 3 |      this mighty wall, a hundred feet in height!~After an hour
13 3 |        twelve or fifteen hundred feet. As to the space enclosed
14 4 |         probably not over thirty feet long. Its wheels spun with
15 5 |        not seem to exceed thirty feet. Its cigar-shaped form and
16 7 |          is in many places fifty feet deep close to shore. Sharp,
17 7 |          show over three hundred feet of water.~“The fishing industry
18 7 |      height of some thousands of feet above sea-level, this is
19 7 |         part is eighty or ninety feet deep. The schooner with
20 11|        absolute calm a few score feet beneath.~But the inventor
21 11|         It is nearly six hundred feet above sea level. It is joined
22 11|      over one hundred and thirty feet. Hence it will be seen that
23 11|        thus came directly to his feet?~When the submarine was
24 11|          channel was some thirty feet deep, so that the “Terror”
25 11|      woods, two or three hundred feet.~It was seven in the evening
26 11|  thoroughly. Five or six hundred feet from here, there is a little
27 11|     darker overhead. Beneath our feet spread a carpet of scattered
28 11|       our steps. The two hundred feet between us and the mouth
29 12|     eddies would swirl up at our feet, as if the Creek had been
30 12|       the spot. The rocks at our feet formed a level, five or
31 12|      formed a level, five or six feet above the water, and descending
32 12|          The men were not thirty feet from us, when, one of them
33 14|         over a hundred and fifty feet. They are called sometimes
34 14|          gulf nearly two hundred feet deep which the waters have
35 14|     scarce more than six hundred feet from the cataract. Then
36 15|      fifteen to eighteen hundred feet in circumference. A floor
37 15|        on four wheels, about two feet in diameter. These had pneumatic
38 15|        rocky wall rose a hundred feet above me. And on the eastern
39 16| assertions. This ship, a hundred feet long, was upheld in the
40 16|          of over twenty thousand feet. Yet even there the “Albatross”
41 16|  Albatross” descended within six feet of the ground. I remember
42 16|         airship rose some thirty feet out of reach, and Robur
43 17|       thousand or twelve hundred feet. I could not see Robur,
44 17|          and calm at a few dozen feet beneath the surface. To
45 17|          of more than a thousand feet into the ocean beneath.~    |