Chapter

 1 3 |       Black Dome, nearly seven thousand feet high, reared its gigantic
 2 3 |      Eyrie scarce exceeds five thousand feet. A modest altitude,
 3 3 |        already more than three thousand feet above sea level, the
 4 3 |      less chagrined than I.~“A thousand devils!” cried he, “we know
 5 4 |   later, and be smashed into a thousand pieces.~“Nonsense!” declared
 6 4 | different prizes reached fifty thousand dollars, so that the race
 7 4 |        the first prize, twenty thousand dollars, lay between five
 8 4 |    which it would smash into a thousand pieces. But was there time?
 9 5 |       A tunnel would cost many thousand dollars, and what good would
10 10|       wave on any of America’s thousand lakes represented the submarine.
11 11|     Lake Erie covers about ten thousand square miles. It is nearly
12 16|   heard, a cry repeated from a thousand throats. Another airship
13 16|        a height of over twenty thousand feet. Yet even there the “
14 17|   which I judged to be about a thousand or twelve hundred feet.
15 17|       heart of the sky, amid a thousand lightning flashes, surrounded
16 17|      the height of more than a thousand feet into the ocean beneath.~    |