15, Rue de Nouailles; he has, I believe,
two hundred thousand francs in Morrel's hands, and if there be any grounds for apprehension, as this is a greater amount than mine, you will most probably find him better informed than myself."
By giving the balloon these cubic dimensions, and filling it with hydrogen gas, instead of common air--the former being fourteen and a half times lighter and weighing therefore only
two hundred and seventy-six pounds--a difference of three thousand seven hundred and twenty-four pounds in equilibrium is produced; and it is this difference between the weight of the gas contained in the balloon and the weight of the surrounding atmosphere that constitutes the ascensional force of the former.
About
two hundred persons had accompanied her in her flight.
"Ordinarily the length of a gun is twenty to twenty-five times the diameter of the shot, and its weight
two hundred and thirty-five to
two hundred and forty times that of the shot."
It was on one of these visits that he came to me and asked for the loan of
two hundred francs.
Their stock consisted of one thousand
two hundred and sixty-nine oxen, one thousand five hundred and fifty-seven cows, five thousand and seven young cattle, four hundred and ninety-three horses, eight thousand six hundred and ninety sheep, and four thousand one hundred and ninety-seven hogs.
The bottom, or under surface, which appears to those who view it below, is one even regular plate of adamant, shooting up to the height of about
two hundred yards.
But this cannot happen again, if the proposed system be adopted; and when these debts are discharged, the only call for revenue of any consequence, which the State governments will continue to experience, will be for the mere support of their respective civil list; to which, if we add all contingencies, the total amount in every State ought to fall considerably short of
two hundred thousand pounds.
For
two hundred years the Eastern Hemisphere had been wiped from the maps and histories of Pan-America.
The eggs, allowing for all mishaps, will produce
two hundred and fifty chickens.
Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker's last.
I am sure I can spare
two hundred a-year for a grand purpose like this.