"Psychomek" <psy### [at] homecom> wrote :
>
> accually Jules Verne had it wrong to begin
> with... it should be fathoms

    Nope, fathoms is a measurement of depth, about 6 feet. To be 20000
fathoms deep you would have to be over 20 miles deep. He meant leagues,
about 50000 miles, that they traveled in their journey from place to place.

http://www.1stbooks.com/cgi-bin/nph-marian?2000010.txt

"Shall I be believed?  I do not know.  And it matters little, after all.
What I now affirm is, that I have a right to speak of these seas, under
which,
in less than ten months, I have crossed 20,000 leagues in that submarine
tour
of the world, which has revealed so many wonders."

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