Chapter
1 Pre | the course of a mail or two to receive a communication
2 I | half cooked, for it is not two yet. Saint Michael’s clock
3 II | could speak fluently in the two thousand languages and twelve
4 II | a violent outbreak, when two o’clock struck by the little
5 III | compared them together.~“These two writings are not by the
6 III | century. Therefore there are two hundred years between the
7 III | it is lucky I have eaten two dinners to-day!”~“First
8 IV | ice’; the eighty-third and two following made ‘sir’; and
9 V | letters alone could form two quintillions, four hundred
10 V | quadrillions, nine hundred and two trillions, eight billions,
11 V | made it a point of honour.~Two o’clock struck. This was
12 VIII | and owners for the time of two berths, one over the other,
13 VIII | irregular square in which are two innocent-looking guns, which
14 IX | entered the North Sea.~In two days more we sighted the
15 IX | gentleman made over to us two of the three rooms which
16 IX | and marshy level, between two hills. An immense bed of
17 IX | The longest of the only two streets that Rejkiavik possesses
18 X | an absence of a year or two.”~“And in the meantime,”
19 XI | done, said my uncle, in two days.~But when he learnt
20 XI | placed at our disposal — two to carry him and me, two
21 XI | two to carry him and me, two for the baggage. Hams, as
22 XI | meridian of Hamburg.~4. Two compasses, viz., a common
23 XI | needle.~5. A night glass.~6. Two of Ruhmkorff’s apparatus,
24 XI | 2]~The arms consisted of two of Purdy’s rifles and two
25 XI | two of Purdy’s rifles and two brace of pistols. But what
26 XI | electricity.~The tools comprised two pickaxes, two spades, a
27 XI | comprised two pickaxes, two spades, a silk ropeladder,
28 XII | formed a frightful chaos.~In two hours from Rejkiavik we
29 XII | and left him standing upon two boulders on the shore just
30 XII | uncle, myself, the guide, two other passengers and the
31 XIII | dry litter, thrown into two wooden frames painted red,
32 XIII | same ceremonial; then the two placing their hands upon
33 XIII | another. The luckiest had only two urchins upon their knees.~
34 XIII | evening, after having forded two rivers full of trout and
35 XIV | tools, and instruments; two iron pointed sticks, two
36 XIV | two iron pointed sticks, two rifles, and two shot belts
37 XIV | sticks, two rifles, and two shot belts were for my uncle
38 XV | starting point we could see the two peaks boldly projected against
39 XV | by narrow tracks, where two could not have gone abreast.
40 XV | out. My uncle swallowed two mouthfuls at a time to get
41 XV | by the hollow between the two peaks, a kind of staircase
42 XV | seven we had ascended the two thousand steps of this grand
43 XV | the crater.~Three thousand two hundred feet below us stretched
44 XVI | of Snæfell and here are two peaks, one north and one
45 XVI | depth appeared to be about two thousand feet. Imagine the
46 XVII | itself from its hold; when two hundred feet down, it would
47 XVII | we had descended another two hundred feet.~I don’t suppose
48 XVIII | perhaps have too much: of the two, this is what I should prefer.
49 XVIII | thermometer with surprise. Two hours after our departure
50 XIX | standing at the intersection of two roads, both dark and narrow.
51 XIX | fatiguing walk, we had gone two leagues south, but scarcely
52 XX | He was awaiting one of two events, either the appearance
53 XX | men.~After their meal my two companions laid themselves
54 XXI | at the junction of the two roads. There I dropped like
55 XXI | was going on between his two companions. The gestures
56 XXII | I reopened them I saw my two companions motionless and
57 XXIII | down a passage inclining two feet in seven. In an hour
58 XXIII | a quarter, and descended two thousand feet.~Then I began
59 XXIII | past me at a distance of two feet with extreme violence.
60 XXIII | pick had soon penetrated two feet into the granite partition,
61 XXIV | horizontal, scarcely more than two inches in a fathom, and
62 XXIV | Rejkiavik, and at a depth of two leagues and a half.~At our
63 XXIV | actual distance no more than two leagues; but being carried
64 XXV | At this rate we shall be two thousand days, or nearly
65 XXVI | league and a half, or nearly two leagues. These were perilous
66 XXVI | towns. We must have been two hundred leagues from Iceland.~
67 XXVI | companions again. There are not two roads. I was too far ahead.
68 XXVIII | Forty seconds between the two words; so the sound takes
69 XXX | wreaths; and often, between two separated fields of cloud,
70 XXX | that weighed upon it; while two stars, Pluto and Proserpine,
71 XXX | creations. Were they some of the two hundred thousand species
72 XXX | boisterous winds. A brig and two or three schooners might
73 XXXII | hitherto.~A mast was made of two poles spliced together,
74 XXXII | flung it into the sea. For two hours nothing was caught.
75 XXXIII | long rope which he let down two hundred fathoms. No bottom
76 XXXIII | violently compressed between two hard bodies.~I looked at
77 XXXIII | During his watch I slept.~Two hours afterwards a terrible
78 XXXIII | his blowers.”~And in fact two liquid columns were rising
79 XXXIII | stops me by a gesture. The two monsters pass within a hundred
80 XXXIII | could distinctly observe the two monsters engaged in deadly
81 XXXIII | negatively.~“Tva,“ says he.~“What two? Does he mean that there
82 XXXIII | mean that there are only two animals?”~“He is right,”
83 XXXIII | Hans had spoken truly. Two monsters only were creating
84 XXXIII | and before my eyes are two reptiles of the primitive
85 XXXIII | prodigious force are heard. The two beasts are fast locked together;
86 XXXIII | intense fear.~One hour, two hours, pass away. The struggle
87 XXXIV | in the evening we are not two leagues distant from it.
88 XXXIV | journal. We have crossed two hundred and seventy leagues
89 XXXV | south-east. We have made two hundred leagues since we
90 XXXVI | Island. Then we had cleared two hundred and seventy leagues
91 XXXVII | Could I stand against the two? It was impossible? If Hans
92 XXXVIII| Professor burst out, between two words which I shall not
93 XXXVIII| facial angle is formed by two lines, one touching the
94 XXXIX | couple of yards. Between two boldly projecting rocks
95 XXXIX | a granite slab, appeared two mysterious graven letters,
96 XL | Yet at the sight of these two letters, engraved on this
97 XLI | pulse beat half-seconds.~“Two! One! Down, granite rocks;
98 XLI | lost.~An hour passed away — two hours, perhaps — I cannot
99 XLIV | side of a mountain only two yards from a gaping gulf,
100 XLIV | we had been strangers for two months was lavishing upon
101 XLIV | could for another hour or two have forgotten my hunger
102 XLIV | and thirst. Happily, after two hours’ walking, a charming
103 XLIV | out of another more than two thousand miles from Snæfell
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