A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

"That is perfectly true, and a famous bit of road we have traveled, my boy. But why we should be und ...

It pointed to the shore instead of to the high seas. I shook the compass; I examined it with a curiou ...

CHAPTER 34 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY It would be altogether impossible for me to give any idea of the ...

stick for a mast, and a tempest to contend with. As we are totally incapable of steering our frail craft, w ...

In a mood of stolid and sullen resignation, I was about to take my accustomed place on the raft when ...

to my new, and perhaps fanciful, theory, this liquid mass must be gradually lost in the deep bowels of ...

soil of the upper and inhabited world had not there existed. Nevertheless, we were drawn forward by an ...

CHAPTER 35 DISCOVERY UPON DISCOVERY In order fully to understand the exclamation made by my uncle, a ...

scientific world, holds that the soil of Moulin-Quignon does not belong to the diluvium but to a much ...

wholly unable to answer. But this head with stretched and parchmenty skin, with the teeth whole, the hair ...

Dauphine, in 1613. In the eighteenth century I should have denied, with Peter Campet, the existence of the pr ...

white race, that is, of our own. The skull of this fossil being is a perfect ovoid without any remar ...

bodies were found, as we trod the dusty plain, and my uncle was able to choose the most marvelous of ...

CHAPTER 36 WHAT IS IT? For a long and weary hour we tramped over this great bed of bones. We advanced ...

conifers or cone-bearing trees, the whole bound together by an inextricable and complicated mass of cree ...

large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mi ...

Immanis pecoris custos, immanior ipse![5] [5] The keeper of gigantic cattle, himself still more gigantic! Yes—it w ...

be believed! ...

CHAPTER 37 THE MYSTERIOUS DAGGER During this time, we had left the bright and transparent forest far behind us. W ...

our starting point. I think, therefore, that if we follow the coast we shall once more find Port Gre ...