A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Hansbach had become a cascade to the detriment of its size. It was still, however, sufficie ...

"We can very easily find out," I replied, pulling out a map and compasses. "You see," I said, after c ...

CHAPTER 22 SUNDAY BELOW GROUND I Awoke on Sunday morning without any sense of hurry and bustle attendant on an ...

hundred and fifty miles from the point of our departure." "Then the mighty waves of the Atlantic are rolling ...

"So that science is wrong by fourteen hundred and seventy-four degrees and four-tenths. According to which, ...

going down." The Professor folded his arms, listened, but did not speak. "Without counting that if a verti ...

"Of course I have. There can be no doubt that a journey into the interior of the earth would be an ...

invented—how, then, could Saknussemm have been able to discover when he did reach the centre of the e ...

CHAPTER 23 ALONE It must in all truth be confessed, things as yet had gone on well, and I should have act ...

makes my soul shudder, and my blood run cold. It was on the seventh of August. Our constant and successive de ...

mistake, I might find my way; if lost—I shuddered to think of it. "Come, come," said I to myself, ...

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CHAPTER 24 LOST! No words in any human language can depict my utter despair. I was literally buried alive; ...

I tried to bring my thoughts back to the things of the world so long forgotten. It was with the great ...

which it was impossible to do was to remain alone. Try to find my companions I must, at any price. But which ...

I tried to cry aloud, but hoarse, hollow, and inarticulate sounds alone could make themselves heard through my ...

Several hours passed in this way. After a long time, having utterly exhausted my strength, I fell a ...

CHAPTER 25 THE WHISPERING GALLERY When at last I came back to a sense of life and being, my face ...

But no! By listening more attentively, I really did convince myself that what I heard was truly the so ...

"I begin to understand," I said to myself after some little time devoted to reflection; "it is not throu ...