Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times—rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas + Around the World in Eighty Days + The Mysterious Island
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Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas + Around the World in Eighty Days + The Mysterious Island
