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1 I, I | Mostaganem and Tenes, about two miles from the mouth of the Shelif.
2 I, I | coast, between four and five miles from the Shelif. His orderly
3 I, V | to accomplish the three miles that lay between the gourbi
4 I, V | at least five and twenty miles in length; but the terrestrial
5 I, V | for a distance of only six miles in every direction.~Meantime,
6 I, VI | them over the four or five miles that intervened between
7 I, VI | travelers rode about twenty-one miles from the river mouth. To
8 I, VI | a distance of forty-two miles. The right bank of the river
9 I, VI | impaired. This was about twelve miles from the Mina, and on the
10 I, VI | ought to have been about six miles to the southwest; and Ben
11 I, VI | accomplished more than twenty miles, they had only just arrived
12 I, VI | distance of about eighteen miles, a new coast line had come
13 I, VI | the Shelif, seventy-two miles; the southern boundary from
14 I, VI | Little Atlas, twenty-one miles; from the Little Atlas to
15 I, VI | Mediterranean, eighteen miles; and sixty miles of the
16 I, VI | eighteen miles; and sixty miles of the shore of the Mediterranean
17 I, VI | circumference of about 171 miles.~“What does it all mean?”
18 I, VII | about nine hundred square miles. Bullocks, cows, goats,
19 I, VII | increased by some millions of miles. He was rather disposed
20 I, VIII | 91,000,000 to 66,000,000 miles. If the just equilibrium
21 I, VIII | of more than 126,000,000 miles a year, and although Arcturus
22 I, VIII | at the rate of fifty-four miles a second—three times faster
23 I, VIII | average distance of 66,130,000 miles from the sun, and Mercury
24 I, VIII | distance than 6,000,000 miles from the earth.~“And a very
25 I, VIII | bands; its mountains eleven miles high;—were all subjects
26 I, VIII | two and three millions of miles, and the intensity of its
27 I, IX | sight, hardly more than six miles from the shore; but owing
28 I, X | rate of speed.~For a few miles she followed the line hitherto
29 I, X | bay which stretched twelve miles across from Cape Matafuz
30 I, XI | a distance of about ten miles, there was the distinct
31 I, XII | of ninety-one millions of miles was greatly increased, and
32 I, XII | sea, at a distance of two miles from land. There was good
33 I, XII | sometimes for two or three miles assuming the form of a simple
34 I, XII | sailing two hundred and forty miles, the progress of the Dobryna
35 I, XII | south of Europe. A hundred miles, or somewhat over, in that
36 I, XII | which were only a. few short miles to leeward. Fully alive
37 I, XIII | visible; for about twelve miles to the south there was another
38 I, XIII | cannon would carry about four miles. It was proposed, by means
39 I, XIII | echoed the major.~“Six miles at least!” observed the
40 I, XV | open sea was about three miles and a half; thence onward
41 I, XV | represents eight and forty miles. What, then, did it all
42 I, XV | Indubitably, to less than 1,400 miles. So brief a voyage would
43 I, XV | being completed in 1 ,400 miles, was that the earth’s diameter
44 I, XV | be something under 1,400 miles, so that the Arctic Pole
45 I, XV | world must be about 350 miles to the north, and the Antarctic
46 I, XV | the Antarctic about 350 miles to the south of the island.
47 I, XV | between 50,000 and 60,000 miles an hour.”~“You think, then,”
48 I, XX | little proud.~The eighteen miles between the island and the
49 I, XXII | radius of three or four miles the adjacent district was
50 I, XXII | had traversed a couple of miles on level ground. Gallia
51 I, XXIII| accomplished the twenty miles to Gourbi Island and back
52 I, XXIV | rate of more than a hundred miles an hour. The wind was still
53 II, III | measured over a hundred miles, the very operation which
54 II, IV | millions and millions of miles away from the earth, where
55 II, IV | equator to be about 1,400 miles.”~“Ah!” said the professor,
56 II, IV | a circumference of 1,400 miles would give a diameter of
57 II, IV | a diameter of about 450 miles. That would be approximately
58 II, IV | Rosette, “630,000 square miles; just 292 times less than
59 II, IV | comet was 47,880,000 cubic miles.~“Just about 5,000 times
60 II, VIII | diameter of Jupiter is 85,390 miles, nearly eleven times as
61 II, VIII | travels at the rate of 467 miles a minute along an orbit
62 II, VIII | measuring 2,976 millions of miles; and that his rotation on
63 II, VIII | compression to be about 2,378 miles; how the axis, being nearly
64 II, VIII | the sun being 475,693,000 miles.~“And how about these satellites?
65 II, VIII | a distance of 1,192,820 miles.~“They have been enlisted
66 II, VIII | situated 2,746,271,000 miles from the sun, issued from
67 II, VIII | revolving 1,753,851,000 miles from the center of the planetary
68 II, VIII | distance of 475,693,000 miles, may be reckoned as 70,000,
69 II, VIII | distance of 139,212,000 miles. The earth, 91,430,000 miles
70 II, VIII | miles. The earth, 91,430,000 miles from the sun, quitted his
71 II, VIII | revolving now 66,131,000 miles away, may be assigned the
72 II, VIII | a distance of 35,393,000 miles for the space of 10,000,
73 II, VIII | October, reduced to 43,000,000 miles. The belts all parallel
74 II, VIII | They were only 31,000,000 miles apart. What would now transpire?
75 II, IX | already traveled 2,300,000 miles from the point where contact
76 II, IX | Jupiter were 40,000,000 miles apart. It was little more
77 II, X | favorable. Scarcely 31,000,000 miles had separated Gallia from
78 II, X | be less than 415,000,000 miles; but even this distance,
79 II, X | distance of 420,000,000 miles from Gallia, and consequently
80 II, X | consequently 874,440,000 miles from the sun, receiving
81 II, X | rate of more than 21,000 miles an hour along an orbit measuring
82 II, X | measuring 5,490 millions of miles in length. His circumference
83 II, X | circumference is about 220,000 miles; his superficies, 144,000
84 II, X | 144,000 millions of square miles; his volume, 143,846 millions
85 II, X | 143,846 millions of cubic miles. Saturn is 735 times larger
86 II, X | distance of only 120,800 miles, whilst Japetus, the most
87 II, X | a distance of 2,314,000 miles.~Another most important
88 II, X | Herschel as scarcely 100 miles in thickness, must have
89 II, X | through the zenith 12,000 miles above his head. As the observer,
90 II, X | though transparent, is 9,625 miles in breadth; the intermediate
91 II, X | planet itself, being 17,605 miles broad; and the outer, of
92 II, X | a dusky hue, being 8,660 miles broad.~Such, they read,
93 II, X | millions of millions of miles away; Sirius in Canis Major,
94 II, X | millions of millions of miles, a figure represented by
95 II, X | little over 1,500 millions of miles; and, in comparison with
96 II, XV | was somewhere about 240 miles. Captain Servadac declared
97 II, XV | To skate sixty or seventy miles a day would be nothing,
98 II, XV | themselves within a few miles of Ceuta.~As soon as Ben
99 II, XV | Being only about twelve miles distant from Gibraltar,
100 II, XVI | bodies will be about 21,000 miles an hour.”~“Express speed,
101 II, XVI | purposes Gallia would be), 450 miles above the level of the surface
102 II, XVII | was now within 96,000,000 miles of the sun, consequently
103 II, XVII | much more than 4,000,000 miles from the earth; and this
104 II, XVII | the rate of nearly 208,000 miles an hour, the speed of the
105 II, XVII | earth being about 70,000 miles, that of the comet being
106 II, XVII | little less than 138,000 miles an hour.~It was determined
107 II, XVIII| hurried on at a speed of 70 miles a second, this vague aspect
108 II, XVIII| and Gallia is only 72,000 miles from the terrestrial sphere;
109 II, XVIII| and they are only 36,000 miles apart!~The whole configuration
110 II, XVIII| expectation.~There were not 20,000 miles between the comet and the
111 II, XVIII| reduced to less than 8,000 miles.~The velocity became inconceivably
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