Chapter
1 II | Turlleson. But, what on earth is their meaning?”~Runic
2 II | which are spoken on the earth, but he knew at least his
3 V | insist upon going; nothing on earth could stop him. His imagination
4 V | combinations; he was far away from earth, and really far away from
5 V | attain the centre of the earth; which I have done, Arne
6 VI | Penetrate to the centre of the earth! What nonsense! But I kept
7 VI | down to the centre of the earth.”~“But that is impossible,”
8 VI | constant, and the radius of the earth being fifteen hundred leagues,
9 VI | degrees at the centre of the earth. Therefore, all the substances
10 VI | compose the body of this earth must exist there in a state
11 VI | force which the crust of the earth would be unable to resist,
12 VI | of these cases would the earth weigh what it does.”~“Oh,
13 VI | my uncle answered. “The earth has been heated by combustion
14 VI | fissures of the crust of the earth, they broke out into fresh
15 VI | volcanoes at the origin of the earth.”~“Upon my word, this is
16 VI | discovering the centre of the earth.”~
17 VII | depths of the abysses of this earth I ascended to its surface
18 IX | Icelandic buts are made of earth and turf, and the walls
19 XI | FOUND TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH~In the evening I took a
20 XI | far as the centre of the earth, Axel.”~Forty-eight hours
21 XIII | large room with a floor of earth stamped hard down, and lighted
22 XIII | foundations rose from the earth like the knotted roots of
23 XIV | our last stage upon the earth. Hans had exhibited great
24 XIV | down in the bowels of the earth, or anywhere on the surface,
25 XIV | the deepest depths of the earth I saw myself tossed up amongst
26 XIV | starting for the centre of the earth need not be particular about
27 XV | from the abysses of the earth slowly spread in extensive
28 XV | was possible to reach the earth’s centre.~So I felt a little
29 XVI | road to the centre of the earth.~Now, no sun no shadow,
30 XVIII | yet into the bowels of the earth.”~“What do you mean?”~“I
31 XVIII | into the interior of the earth. At this precise moment
32 XVIII | gone deep into the crust of earth, we should have encountered
33 XX | the secondary period, the earth was clothed with immense
34 XX | atmosphere surrounded the earth, still veiling the direct
35 XX | from the interior of the earth?~Notwithstanding the theories
36 XX | and yielding crust of the earth obeyed the fluid forces
37 XXI | return to the surface of the earth.”~In spite of my irritation
38 XXII | in its early stages the earth was slowly cooling, its
39 XXII | the mineral crust of the earth, and have ascertained it
40 XXII | unapproachable depth in the earth, hidden for ever from the
41 XXII | rocky foundations of the earth, which bears without distortion
42 XXIII | hammer in this part of the earth’s structure. Suppose some
43 XXIII | from the surface of the earth, it is equal to the weight
44 XXIV | the vaulted hollows of the earth.~On Thursday, at 8 a.m.,
45 XXIV | cooling of the globe of the earth. If it had at one time been
46 XXV | of men who live upon the earth’s surface. Being fossils,
47 XXV | thickness of the crust of the earth.”~“I don’t deny it.”~“And
48 XXV | now are, the radius of the earth, the distance from the centre
49 XXV | the hundredth part of the earth’s radius. At this rate we
50 XXV | emerge from some point in the earth’s circumference instead
51 XXVI | mass of the interior of the earth. Some days we advanced nearer
52 XXVII | LOST IN THE BOWELS OF THE EARTH~To describe my despair would
53 XXVII | things on the surface of the earth. I could scarcely succeed.
54 XXVII | surface in the bowels of the earth, the discovery might lead
55 XXVII | anguish burst from me. Upon earth, in the midst of the darkest
56 XXVII | through the substance of the earth’s thick crust, a struggling
57 XXIX | alone in the heart of the earth.~Next morning, on awakening,
58 XXIX | returned to the surface of the earth? Has my uncle given up the
59 XXX | the irregular shores of earth, but desert and frightfully
60 XXX | captain, who likened the earth to a vast hollow sphere,
61 XXX | into the deep abysses of earth.~Besides I could not tell
62 XXX | before me productions of earth, but of gigantic stature,
63 XXX | They were lowly shrubs of earth, here attaining gigantic
64 XXX | animal life existed upon the earth only in the secondary period,
65 XXX | below the surface of the earth?”~“No doubt; and there is
66 XXX | At a certain period the earth consisted only of an elastic
67 XXXI | continents in the interior of the earth.”~“No doubt,” said my uncle; “
68 XXXII | been the appearance of the earth in the first ages of its
69 XXXII | again cover the face of the earth; they boil, they rise in
70 XXXII | the shifting forms of the earth, which by imperceptible
71 XXXII | times the volume of the earth into which it will one day
72 XXXIII | mammalian race upon the earth. The world then belonged
73 XXXIII | living. They burdened this earth a thousand ages before man
74 XXXIII | fated — I, a denizen of earth — to be placed face to face
75 XXXV | like many creatures on earth at the approach of violent
76 XXXVII | within the interior of the earth, and it certainly had its
77 XXXVII | within the bowels of the earth.~This theory of the phenomena
78 XXXVIII| disturbing the crust of the earth. The long-continued cooling
79 XXXVIII| probably, portions of the upper earth may have fallen. I make
80 XXXVIII| fissure in the crust of the earth, down to the shores of the
81 XXXVIII| inhabitants of the upper earth? Until the present time
82 XXXIX | alone, in the bowels of the earth, at the mercy of its wild
83 XXXIX | there in the bowels of the earth, is impossible.~However,
84 XXXIX | way to the centre of the earth. Let us look about: look
85 XL | PASSAGE TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH~Since the start upon this
86 XL | reach the centre of the earth.”~Such was my sentence!
87 XLII | of the great cities upon earth.~My uncle still had his
88 XLII | thickness of the crust of the earth that lay between us and
89 XLIII | reaching the surface of the earth.”~I pass rapidly over the
90 XLIV | by being landed upon the earth again.~The hunter shook
91 XLV | way to the centre of the earth had spread over the whole
92 XLV | to the very centre of the earth the track of the learned
93 XLV | into the Interior of the Earth’ created a wonderful sensation
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