Chapter 13
Some FiguresA MOMENT LATER we were seated on a couch in the lounge, cigars
between our lips. The Captain placed before my eyes a working
drawing that gave the ground plan, cross section, and side view of
the Nautilus. Then he began his description as follows:
"Here, Professor Aronnax, are the different dimensions of this
boat now transporting you. It's a very long cylinder with conical
ends. It noticeably takes the shape of a cigar, a shape already
adopted in London for several projects of the same kind. The length
of this cylinder from end to end is exactly seventy meters, and its
maximum breadth of beam is eight meters. So it isn't quite built on
the ten–to–one ratio of your high–speed steamers; but its lines are
sufficiently long, and their tapering gradual enough
