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1 I, I | dreary veil across land and sea.~After taking leave of the
2 I, IV | not distinguish between sea and sky?~Whence came it
3 I, IV | effect upon earth, sky, and sea?~Was it possible that a
4 I, V | CHAPTER V~A MYSTERIOUS SEA~Violent as the commotion
5 I, V | and the surface of the sea was ruffled with an agitation
6 I, V | condensation, failed to fall.~The sea appeared quite deserted,
7 I, V | On land, as well as on sea, the remote distance had
8 I, V | anywhere in sight. But the sea was deserted, and for the
9 I, V | the shore of an unknown sea.~Eager to throw some light
10 I, V | as he had tasted it. “The sea has undoubtedly swallowed
11 I, V | like a cannon ball into the sea. Without any warning, day
12 I, V | place to night, and earth, sea, and sky were immediately
13 I, VI | was now the boundary of a sea, which extending farther
14 I, VI | attainable, could distinguish sea, and nothing but sea, to
15 I, VI | distinguish sea, and nothing but sea, to the farthest horizon.~
16 I, VII | about a displacement of the sea; but the hypothesis entirely
17 I, VII | elevation, how is it that the sea remains at its proper level?”~
18 I, VII | we can only be rescued by sea.”~“But do you suppose that
19 I, VII | appeared upon the desert sea. “By the name of a Kabyle!”
20 I, IX | remained calm, and the sea was quite smooth, she was
21 I, IX | protected it from the open sea, and which, even in the
22 I, IX | said, “I was proceeding by sea to our appointed place of
23 I, IX | Then let us put out to sea at once and ascertain the
24 I, IX | was again ready to put to sea.~Servadac employed the interval
25 I, IX | and was soon upon the open sea.~
26 I, X | in the Isle of Wight. Her sea going qualities were excellent,
27 I, X | tenaciously, even out at sea, did they cling to their
28 I, X | breeze was blowing, the sea was rough, a circumstance
29 I, X | the 4th of February, the sea was examined and explored
30 I, X | of the Mitidja from the sea, and of which the highest
31 I, X | above the surface of the sea, was nowhere to be traced.
32 I, XI | had been lost in boundless sea.~Not a vestige of it all
33 I, XI | place to a vast waste of sea, the transparent waves of
34 I, XI | throughout the voyage the sea continued to be deserted;
35 I, XII | sailing all this time over sea where we expected to find
36 I, XII | where we thought to find sea!”~“Strange, indeed,” replied
37 I, XII | her way, but well out to sea, at a distance of two miles
38 I, XII | above the surface of the sea, and that it was mainly
39 I, XIII | insignificant island far out to sea. But although the transformation
40 I, XIII | some 1,600 feet above the sea, was not, strictly speaking,
41 I, XIII | Awhile, they gazed at the sea and at each other in mute
42 I, XIV | Oliphant.~“I was out at sea, cruising in my yacht; hard
43 I, XIV | certain that the Sahara Sea had no longer an existence.~
44 I, XV | CHAPTER XV~AN ENIGMA FROM THE SEA~Lieutenant Procope had been
45 I, XV | land to regain the open sea was about three miles and
46 I, XV | the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific,
47 I, XV | found now encompassing this sea. Why, if the new land is
48 I, XV | Palos— all were gone. The sea was rolling over the southern
49 I, XV | site of Malta. Here the sea made a decided indentation
50 I, XV | stood. But as hitherto the sea had encroached upon the
51 I, XV | now encroached upon the sea; for a frowning headland
52 I, XV | shouting, “A bottle in the sea!”~Here, then, at length
53 I, XVI | opening, level with the sea, was a little strand upon
54 I, XVI | there was nothing but the sea they had traversed; to the
55 I, XVII | of the new shores of the sea on which they were sailing.~“
56 I, XVII | think, that before long the sea will be frozen over, and
57 I, XVII | stippled with light, whilst the sea, as though spattered with
58 I, XVII | the latitude of Rome, the sea took the form of a deep
59 I, XVII | itself above the level of the sea, had vanished utterly.~Another
60 I, XVII | much longer now before the sea would be entirely frozen;
61 I, XVII | sent broadcast upon the sea.”~“I wonder where the hare-brained
62 I, XVII | these new waters the Gallian Sea?”~“There can be no reason
63 I, XVIII| has come to us over the sea, ‘Never despair’; but one
64 I, XVIII| plains; moreover, the Gallian Sea would ere long be frozen
65 I, XVIII| had been spent upon the sea, his real business being
66 I, XIX | full extent of the Gallian Sea, which apparently comprised
67 I, XIX | still disposed to put out to sea and make for Algiers.~The
68 I, XX | the subsoil of the Gallian sea. It evidently formed the
69 I, XX | time was impending when the sea itself would freeze.~Some
70 I, XX | southern confines of the sea, and which had obliged her
71 I, XX | lava was descending to the sea. With much satisfaction
72 I, XX | feet above the level of the sea, they ascertained that it
73 I, XX | rolling downwards to the sea, completely subtending the
74 I, XXI | with pure water, a frozen sea would afford them an inexhaustible
75 I, XXI | more and more manifest; the sea threatened to be un-navigable
76 I, XXI | apparent communication with the sea, and was evidently the aperture
77 I, XXI | condition long after the Gallian Sea had become a sheet of ice.~
78 I, XXI | him was true? What if this sea was no longer the Mediterranean?
79 I, XXII | while the condition of the sea would allow it; and in several
80 I, XXII | the stony strata to the sea. It seemed at present out
81 I, XXII | feet above the level of the sea, in the form of a truncated
82 I, XXII | and west lay the Gallian Sea, smooth and motionless as
83 I, XXII | and contemplated land and sea; then, having given a last
84 I, XXII | condition of the Gallian Sea by the intervention of human
85 I, XXII | the increasing cold, the sea, unruffled as it was by
86 I, XXII | throw something into the sea?”~“I think I could,” replied
87 I, XXII | horizon, and the Gallian Sea had become a solid sheet
88 I, XXIII| the waters of the Gallian Sea were imprisoned beneath
89 I, XXIII| in his eyes, of course, a sea), performed prodigies in
90 I, XXIII| could reach, the Gallian Sea had become one uniform sheet
91 I, XXIV | would occur in the open sea. Captain Servadac, however,
92 I, XXIV | the aspect of that frozen sea; not a single living creature
93 I, XXIV | as I should have done at sea, and I have kept some distance
94 II, I | unsigned documents picked up at sea, and of the third statement
95 II, V | perpendicularly into the sea. Above the cavern, 130 feet
96 II, V | Palmyrin Rosette’s observatory.~Sea and land seemed blended
97 II, V | feet above the level of the sea.~“What a strange phenomenon!”
98 II, X | have to elapse before the sea would be open to navigation;
99 II, XI | the level of the Gallian Sea, while the schooner, as
100 II, XI | ice did not, as a liquid sea would, reflect the last
101 II, XI | the surface of the frozen sea.~Later still, half an hour
102 II, XII | the level of the Gallian Sea. When they were six hundred
103 II, XV | thaw. The surface of the sea remained as frozen as ever,
104 II, XV | while the surface of the sea presented a smooth and solid
105 II, XV | from Gibraltar before the sea had frozen, and a solid
106 II, XVI | the great voice of the sea,” as the whalers graphically
107 II, XVII | upon every difficulty.~The sea had now become navigable,
108 II, XVII | of its descending in the sea at a short distance from
109 II, XVIII| the basin of the Gallian Sea. An inconsiderable speck
110 II, XVIII| formed the framework of the sea; whilst in every direction
111 II, XVIII| the distinction between sea and shore was more plainly
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