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1 VI | be a temperature of 360,032 degrees at the centre of
2 XVIII | my observation we are at 10,000 feet below the level
3 XLII | moment at the height of 100° Fahr.~What could be the
4 XVIII | departure it only marked 10° (50° Fahr.), an increase
5 IX | of his punishment.~On the 11th we reached Cape Portland.
6 XXVIII | coming. Now, at the rate of 1,120 feet in a second, this is
7 VI | of this mountain, that of 1219; from that time it has quieted
8 XVIII | is only attained at every 125 feet. Let us therefore assume
9 XXXII | WONDERS OF THE DEEP~On the 13th of August we awoke early.
10 XI | how far we may go.”~The 14th was wholly spent in arranging
11 XXXIII | MONSTERS~Saturday, August 15. — The sea unbroken all
12 XI | thermometer, graduated up to 150 degrees (302 degrees Fahr.),
13 XLIII | atmosphere would have marked 150°. The perspiration streamed
14 X | persecuted for heresy, and in 1573 his books were burned by
15 XXXVIII| analysis made at Lucerne in 1577 of those huge bones which
16 XVIII | 178° Fahr.) was scarcely 15° (59° Fahr.). Here was cause
17 XXXVIII| sandpit in the Dauphiné, in 1613. In the eighteenth century
18 XVIII | ought to have been 81° (178° Fahr.) was scarcely 15° (
19 XXXIII | look out.~Tuesday, August 18. — Evening came, or rather
20 XXXIX | in the marshes of Ohio in 1801. I saw those huge elephants
21 X | runs in Icelandic blood. In 1816 we founded a prosperous
22 VI | chemist, Humphry Davy, in 1825?”~“Not at all, for I was
23 I | Sir Humphry Davy died in 1829, the translator must be
24 X | Recherche was sent out in 1835 by Admiral Duperré to learn
25 I | which the great fire of 1842 had fortunately spared.~[
26 I | considerable discoveries, for in 1853 there had appeared at Leipzig
27 XI | electricity. He obtained in 1864 the quinquennial prize of
28 XXIV | days later, Saturday, the 18th of July, in the evening,
29 XIII | lay at Krösolbt.~On the 19th of June, for about a mile,
30 XVII | descended was fourteen times 200 feet, or 2,800 feet.~At
31 XXXV | ELECTRIC STORM~Friday, August 21. — On the morrow the magnificent
32 XXVIII | feet in a second, this is 22,400 feet, or four miles
33 VI | temperature will be more than 2372 degrees.”~“Are you afraid
34 I | PROFESSOR AND HIS FAMILY~On the 24th of May, 1863, my uncle,
35 XVI | of the funnel was about 250 feet in circuit, so that
36 XVI | misty space beyond.~On the 26th nothing yet. Rain mingled
37 XLI | next day, Thursday, August 27, is a well-remembered date
38 XXXVIII| before our departure.~On the 28th of March, 1863, some excavators
39 XVIII | Chronometer, 8.17 a.m.; barometer, 297 in.; thermometer, 6° (43°
40 XVI | again overcast; but on the 29th of June, the last day but
41 XIX | Next day, Tuesday, June 30, at 6 a.m., the descent
42 XI | graduated up to 150 degrees (302 degrees Fahr.), which seemed
43 XLIII | arctic regions, with a cold 30° below the freezing point.
44 XLV | forty-eight hours, on the 31 st of August, a small craft
45 XXIII | this column of water is 32,000 feet high — that is,
46 XXXIV | marks an intense heat of 325°, which is far above the
47 VI | regions is never lower than 40 degrees below zero Fahr.?
48 XVIII | 297 in.; thermometer, 6° (43° F.). Direction, E.S.E.”~
49 XVIII | the rate of one degree (1 45° Fahr.) for every hundred
50 XVII | my computation should be 46; Ursa minor. Then I fell
51 XI | in the proportion of 1 to 480,000 of the actual size of
52 XLV | On Friday, September the 4th, we embarked on the steamer
53 XVIII | Fahr.), an increase of only 4°. This gave reason for believing
54 XI | the quinquennial prize of 50,000 franc reserved by the
55 XVIII | departure it only marked 10° (50° Fahr.), an increase of only
56 XXV | to the surface is about 1,583 leagues; let us say in round
57 XIII | night-time, but under the 65th parallel there was nothing
58 XXIV | Icelandic hunter.~On the 6th and 7th of July we kept
59 XVIII | barometer, 297 in.; thermometer, 6° (43° F.). Direction, E.S.E.”~
60 VI | rises one degree for every 70 feet in depth; now, admitting
61 XXV | the savants are wrong by 2,705°, and the proportional increase
62 XXV | ought to be a heat of 2,732° Fahr.!”~“So there should,
63 XLIII | there was only one in the 80th degree of north latitude,
64 XVIII | which ought to have been 81° (178° Fahr.) was scarcely
65 XXV | Twenty-seven, six tenths (82° Fahr.).”~“Therefore the
66 XXV | these twelve at a cost of 85 leagues diagonally?”~“Exactly
67 XXXII | state of fusion. Therm. 89° Fahr.~At noon Hans prepared
68 XLV | my mind fearfully. On the 9th of September, in the evening,
69 III | entitled to pronounce this, à priori, to be Latin. It
70 XXII | far distance.~“Hans has abandoned us,” I cried. “Hans! Hans!”~
71 XLIII | Professor gave up his idea of abandoning the raft, and it was well
72 XIV | Was he contemplating the abandonment of his plans? This was too
73 I | his fury would gradually abate.~Now in mineralogy there
74 XXXVIII| of Moulin Quignon, near Abbeville, in the department of Somme,
75 XVI | reduced to ponds, rivers abbreviated into streams. On my right
76 XXVII | darkest night, light never abdicates its functions altogether.
77 XII | understood the necessity of abiding a particular moment of the
78 IX | to pasture on these green abodes.~In my excursion I met but
79 IV | and utterly destroy and abolish this dangerous secret, when
80 XLV | on our minds except that abominable deceitful compass, which
81 XV | two could not have gone abreast. There was therefore no
82 XXXIX | steel —”~My uncle stopped me abruptly on my way to a dissertation
83 XXXIII | my uncle who was entirely absorbed in his calculations. I had
84 XIX | begin his sports again!~I abstained from communicating these
85 V | expense of my involuntary abstinence.~These reasons seemed excellent
86 V | Liedenbrock seemed to be greatly abstracted.~The ruling thought gave
87 III | was fond of investigating abstruse scientific questions. What
88 XXIII | seemingly tranquil huntsman. The absurdest notions ran in utter confusion
89 IX | with all our luggage, the abundance of which rather astonished
90 XLI | earthquake in this fissured and abysmal region; a great gulf had
91 VII | unfathomable precipices with the accelerating velocity of bodies falling
92 XXIV | Hans as to guard against accident, and the descent commenced.
93 XL | up the way. It is only an accidental obstruction, not met by
94 XVI | was accomplished without accidents, except the loss of a coil
95 XIII | much light. The sleeping accommodation consisted of dry litter,
96 XI | inventory of all our travelling accompaniments, I must not forget a pocket
97 XXIX | landed in the midst of an accompanying torrent of stones, the least
98 XXIII | hole was not so easy to accomplish. It was in vain that we
99 XIII | horses stopped of their own accord at the door of the priest’
100 III | and I have replaced it accordingly, since our typography does
101 XIX | in the gallery, and the accumulation of intensely heated vapours
102 XX | of the seas the vegetable accumulations first became peat; then,
103 XL | block just across our way.~“Accursed rock!” I cried in a passion,
104 XXXIX | age, leguminose plants, acerineæ, rubiceæ and many other
105 XI | alcoholic ether, liquid acetate of lead, vinegar, and ammonia
106 VIII | squeezed his hands till they ached. That good man was rather
107 XXXVII | fierce parody upon the fierce Achilles defying the lightning. But
108 XXXVIII| and would be obliged to acknowledge their error. I am quite
109 II | must have known, for he was acknowledged to be quite a polyglot.
110 X | a few minutes with warm acknowledgments paid by the German to the
111 XXIII | returning; but then my uncle acquainted me with the cause of the
112 VII | nothing to do with your actions. What! did this child encourage
113 XL | Whilst Hans was at work I was actively helping my uncle to prepare
114 XX | the splendid part he now acts. There were no ‘climates’
115 XVII | exercise would go on again ad infinitum.~“Now,” said my
116 Pre | translations. Witty and ingenious adaptations of the researches and discoveries
117 XLV | youth. What is the need of adding that the illustrious Otto
118 II | his shoulders; “but, in addition to all this, the Icelandic
119 I | Such was the gentleman who addressed me in that impetuous manner.
120 XXXVIII| assumed his learned air; and addressing himself to an imaginary
121 XXV | I remained a steadfast adherent of the opinions of Professor
122 XV | to reach it! The stones, adhering by no soil or fibrous roots
123 XI | steeds and with his last adieu M. Fridrikssen treated me
124 XI | disagreed upon some question of administration, and did not speak to each
125 II | which would have suited me admirably.~But on entering this study
126 X | was sent out in 1835 by Admiral Duperré to learn the fate
127 XXX | them. I gazed, I thought, I admired, with a stupefaction mingled
128 II | both rich and simple, and admits of an infinite variety of
129 XXXII | We were now to begin to adopt a mode of travelling both
130 III | sincerely. As for me, I adored her, if there is such a
131 VII | did error begin?~I was all adrift amongst a thousand contradictory
132 XXXVIII| utensils, bones of children and adults. The existence therefore
133 XLV | to exhibit him on most advantageous terms in all the principal
134 XLIV | Sea, on an island of the Æolian archipelago, in the ancient
135 XLIV | ancient Strongyle, where Æolus kept the winds and the storms
136 VIII | of the tower. There the aerial staircase began its gyrations,
137 XXII | distance, which had failed to affect my hearing?~
138 II | of old parchment. As an affectionate and attentive nephew I considered
139 XIV | eruption.”~At this positive affirmation I stood amazed and speechless.~“
140 VIII | solid street pavements I was afflicted with severe lumbago.~“To-morrow
141 XVII | these volcanic formations affords the strongest confirmation
142 XXXII | was set, and we were soon afloat. At the moment of leaving
143 XLI | the deep.~At six we were afoot. The moment drew near to
144 XXX | thatched roofs of a central African city.~Yet I wanted to penetrate
145 XXXII | the wind blowing directly aft.~Since our departure from
146 XX | walls, some of a greyish agate fantastically veined with
147 XII | trachyte, basalt, and tuffs and agglomerates associated with streams
148 XV | tufa, that is to say, an agglomeration of porous rocks and stones.
149 XXXV | symptoms of storm become aggravated. The wind never lulls but
150 XV | loads, climbed with the agility of mountaineers.~To judge
151 XL | those magnetic storms which agitate these regions, and has blocked
152 XLIII | its component parts, the agitation caused by great liquid torrents,
153 XLII | us triumph over our past agonies.~But as soon as the meal
154 XVI | long I remained plunged in agonizing reflections I cannot tell;
155 IX | the men; their faces were agreeable but expressionless, and
156 XXXVIII| more recent formation; and, agreeing in that with Cuvier, he
157 XXI | me of this, and instinct agrees with logic to support my
158 XXX | course of treatment with the aid of astonishment, and my
159 VI | putting on one of his grandest airs. “Neither you nor anybody
160 XXXVIII| the tale of the kneepan of Ajax, the pretended body of Orestes
161 XVII | his tranquil voice:~“Gif akt! ”~“Attention!” repeated
162 XVIII | but there is something alarming in the quietness itself.”~“
163 III | satisfactory admiration.~“Those alchemists,” he resumed, “Avicenna,
164 XI | phials containing dextrine, alcoholic ether, liquid acetate of
165 VIII | throats between branches of alder and willow.~But, alas! Gräuben
166 XXXVII | the midst of the famous Alexandrian library burnt by Omar and
167 XIII | of trout and pike, called Alfa and Heta, we were obliged
168 XIII | and to reach the hamlet of Alftanes, one mile beyond.~That evening,
169 V | what looked very much like algebraic formula: I followed with
170 XVIII | like globes of light.”~“Ali, you think so, do you, Axel,
171 XLI | we could not have kept it alight. Then, like a child, I closed
172 XXI | retrograde march. Our fluid aliment was now nothing but gin;
173 XLIII | where I might roll and allay my feverish heat. Little
174 XXVII | trust in God’s providence allayed the turbulence of my fears,
175 XX | were at the end of a blind alley. “Very well, it’s all right!”
176 XXXIII | saurians of our day, the alligators and the crocodiles, are
177 XXXIX | according to his wont, and was allowing his imagination to run away
178 XXXVIII| it will be necessary to allude to an event of high importance
179 XII | provocation we should have given alms for the relief of the poor
180 VII | flasks, grappling irons, alpenstocks, pickaxes, iron shod sticks,
181 III | the shady avenues by the Alster, and went happily side by
182 XV | carbonized remains of vegetation alternating with thinner layers of tufaceous
183 XI | coarse grained powder, and amadou, nor a leathern belt in
184 VIII | situated in the island of Amak, which forms the south-west
185 XXXIII | arm must be possessed of amazing strength. Is there some
186 I | by M. Struve, the Russian ambassador; a most valuable collection,
187 XXXVII | to me,” I said firmly. “Ambition must have a limit somewhere;
188 XIV | perhaps on a Sunday he made amends.~I don’t mean to say anything
189 XLI | of the swiftest rapids in American rivers. Its surface seemed
190 XVI | running over with liquid fire amid the rolling thunder. The
191 XI | acetate of lead, vinegar, and ammonia drugs which afforded me
192 Pre | desert home with all that amor patriae which is so much
193 XXXIX | down with a terror which amounted to stupefaction. We kept
194 XII | once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.
195 XXXVIII| whose remains fill this amphitheatre. But if you ask me how he
196 VIII | Vincent, where we had an ample breakfast for four marks
197 III | hand in hand; I told her amusing tales at which she laughed
198 I | for pointing out here an anachronism, unless we are to assume
199 V | deeply into the matter, analytically and with profound scrutiny.
200 XXXIII | perfectly built up again and anatomically ascertained.~I saw at the
201 IX | the Valkyria dropped her anchor before Rejkiavik, in Faxa
202 XIII | perfect cluster of unwashed angels.~My uncle and I treated
203 XXVII | darkness.~A terrible cry of anguish burst from me. Upon earth,
204 XXXIII | other with the greatest animosity. They heaved around them
205 XII | farther on, to Saurboër ‘Annexia,’ a chapel of ease built
206 XLIII | mortals were to be buried and annihilated in this dreadful consummation.~“
207 XXVIII | was hoping for complete annihilation, when a loud noise reached
208 XIII | brought to a close by the announcement of dinner. At that moment
209 XXXVII | mericotheria, lophiodia, anoplotheria, megatheria, mastodons,
210 XXXII | dispute its prey with the anoplotherium (unarmed beast), a strange
211 XXX | immense conservatory the antediluvian plants which the wisdom
212 XXXII | rounded in front, and the anterior part of its body was plated
213 XXXVIII| preserved for a purely anthropological end and purpose.”~I was
214 VIII | obliged to undergo this anti-vertiginous exercise; and whether I
215 XIV | rector did not to go in for antique hospitality. Very far from
216 VIII | to the Museum of Northern Antiquities.~The curator of this curious
217 XVI | proportioned to his desperate anxieties.~The next day the sky was
218 XXII | to stop. He was listening anxiously for the murmur of distant
219 VIII | space.~At last I reached the apex, with the assistance of
220 XXXVIII| AGAIN~To understand this apostrophe of my uncle’s, made to absent
221 III | and thirty-two letters in apparent disorder. There are words
222 XXXVIII| I stood mute before this apparition of remote antiquity. My
223 XIII | forbidden to marry.~These apparitions were not cheerful, and did
224 XXXIV | on,” replied my uncle.~I appealed to Hans. He maintained his
225 XXXIX | traveller:~[Runic initials appear here]~“A. S.,” shouted my
226 VI | afterwards my hunger was appeased, and I was able to return
227 XLIV | now tried French: “Comment appellet-on cette montagne, mon enfant?”~
228 XXIII | not but understand, and applaud and cheer him on, when I
229 XXXVIII| into loud and unanimous applause. For of course my uncle
230 XXXVI | instruments. As for tools and appliances, there they all lay on the
231 XI | line of Virgil eminently applicable to such uncertain wanderers
232 XXXIII | I was possessed with an apprehension lest the electric light
233 XLIII | have given rise to dreadful apprehensions.~But other facts, other
234 XXXV | light nimbly leaps aside; it approaches Hans, who fixes his blue
235 XXXIII | notices it, and looks on approvingly.~Already widely disturbed
236 I | was too slow for him. In April, after a had planted in
237 XIV | hand, and with a leathern apron on.~“Sællvertu,“ said the
238 VI | Liepzig. Nothing could be more apropos. Take down the third atlas
239 VIII | alarm, for my head was very apt to feel dizzy; I possessed
240 IV | purely French words “mer”, “arc”, “mere.” ”~All this was
241 XXIV | waves, as long as we were arched over by solid granite. And,
242 XLIV | an island of the Æolian archipelago, in the ancient Strongyle,
243 XXXI | over our heads. The great Architect has built it of the best
244 XIV | severely simple order of architecture, never surpassed either
245 XIV | proportions, supported an architrave of horizontal slabs, the
246 XLV | state, he deposited in the archives of the city the now famous
247 XIV | CHAPTER XIV.~BUT ARCTICS CAN BE INHOSPITABLE, TOO~
248 XV | was growing more and more arduous, the ascent steeper and
249 XXXIV | Thence his eye sweeps a large area of sea, and it is fixed
250 XXXIII | fossil remains, found in the argillaceous limestone called by the
251 XXXVIII| his ground, disputed, and argued, until M. Elie de Beaumont
252 XXX | the deserts fell upon the arid, naked rocks, and weighed
253 III | been premeditated; it has arisen mathematically in obedience
254 IV | down into the old velvet arm-chair, my head thrown back and
255 XXXVII | strata.~[1] The glyptodon and armadillo are mammalian; the tortoise
256 XXXVII | those gigantic glyptodons or armadilloes of the pleiocene period,
257 XXXIII | almost lizard), a serpent, armoured with the carapace and the
258 III | Every day she helped me to arrange my uncle’s precious specimens;
259 XIX | without reflection.~Our arrangements for the night were very
260 XXX | of domes placed in close array like the round, thatched
261 XV | this torrent had not been arrested in its fall by the formation
262 XIV | not going to leave us.~On arriving at the door of the rector’
263 XI | seemed to believe in his arsenal as in his instruments, and
264 XXXII | crustaceans, molluscs, and articulated beings. Then the zoophytes
265 X | blind to the transparent artifices of my uncle.~“I very much
266 XVIII | long time by creating an artificial light even in the midst
267 XXXII | is climbing up the steep ascents. Higher yet, the pterodactyle (
268 XL | for our landing. I jumped ashore, followed by my uncle and
269 XLIV | a great deal.~“We are in Asia,” I cried, “on the coasts
270 XXXIII | six in the evening Hans asks for his wages, and his three
271 XVI | rocks, looked at him with asmuch wonder as they knew how
272 XVI | accustomed to these sublime aspects of nature. My dazzled eyes
273 XVIII | degrees; happily certain asperities and a few blisterings here
274 XV | comforted as we advanced to the assault of Snæfell.~The way was
275 XXXVI | found Hans surrounded by an assemblage of articles all arranged
276 XXXVII | of extinct monsters here assembled together for his special
277 I | fact I am most anxious to assert and reassert. Sometimes
278 XXXVIII| contradict this startling assertion.~“If I could only wash it
279 XXXVIII| have fallen. I make no rash assertions; but there is the man surrounded
280 XXIII | Because —” Well, I could not assign a reason.~“When our flasks
281 XXV | this is the very limit assigned by science to the thickness
282 I | I became his laboratory assistant.~I freely confess that I
283 XLI | form. I had difficulty in associating any ideas together during
284 XIV | rock of igneous origin. It assumes regular forms, the arrangement
285 XI | find the name. As he is assured by a first-rate instrument
286 XXI | The nature of the rock assures me of this, and instinct
287 XXXVIII| Spartans, and of the body of Asterius, ten cubits long, of which
288 XXXII | sphenophylla (wedge-leaved), asterophylla (star-leaved), and lycopods,
289 XX | lycopods, besides sigillaria, asterophyllites, now scarce plants, but
290 XL | had been through so many astonishments that I might well be excused
291 XXXIX | any astonishment however astounding.~We had long lost sight
292 XXXIII | followed led us altogether astray?”~“At any rate we cannot
293 XV | after an hour of fatigue and athletic exercises, in the midst
294 XXVII | little. Here there was not an atom; the total darkness made
295 XXXII | resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised.
296 IV | mutabile,” “ira,” “net,” “atra.”~“Come now,” I thought, “
297 III | vnteief niedrke~kt,samn atrateS saodrrn~emtnaeI nvaect rrilSa~
298 III | saodrrn~emtnaeI nvaect rrilSa~Atsaar .nvcrc ieaabs~ccrmi eevtVl
299 XLV | safety.~We were strongly attached to our brave eider-down
300 XXX | lowly shrubs of earth, here attaining gigantic size; lycopodiums,
301 XXXII | feverish hand has vainly attempted to describe upon paper its
302 XXVII | stretched out before me, attempting painfully to feel my way.
303 XXV | learned Icelander were really attested, there was one very simple
304 V | viator, et terrestre centrum attinges.~Quod feci, Arne Saknussemm. [
305 XXXVII | up-and-down motion, his whole attitude denoted unlimited astonishment.
306 XXXVI | his hands, he studied his attitudes. I followed him, curious
307 XIII | charm over the less and less attractive landscapes. The last tufts
308 XXXIV | again to a lower, which I attribute to the variable pressure
309 XV | its origin may well be attributed to subterranean fires. Therefore,
310 XXVIII | Good bye, Axel, au revoir!”~. . . .~These were
311 XXVIII | our guns. Our voices are audible to each other, but our hands
312 XXIII | already refreshing me. It was audibly increasing. The torrent,
313 XXXIV | as yesterday’s.~Thursday, Aug. 20. — Wind N.N.E., unsteady
314 XXV | But won’t this density augment?”~“Yes; according to a rather
315 XIV | condition, if they display no augmentation of force, and if you add
316 XXVIII | of travelling; it merely augments its intensity. Seconds,
317 VI | ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Liepzig. Nothing
318 XXX | electric origin. It was like an aurora borealis, a continuous cosmical
319 XXXIX | growing side by side, the Australian eucalyptus leaned against
320 II | the most famous Icelandic author of the twelfth century!
321 XXXVIII| Elie de Beaumont. This high authority maintained that the soil
322 XIII | said Hans.~Then calmly, automatically, and dispassionately he
323 XIV | follow me.”~I obeyed like an automaton. Coming out from the priest’
324 V | cipher, audax is written avdas, and quod and quem, hod
325 III | and turn into the shady avenues by the Alster, and went
326 XVIII | was the facifs descensus Averni of Virgil. The compass,
327 III | alchemists,” he resumed, “Avicenna, Bacon, Lully, Paracelsus,
328 II | this shred with incredible avidity. An old document, enclosed
329 XLIV | screes of ashes, carefully avoiding the lava streams which glided
330 IX | went into the boat which awaited him. I followed, and presently
331 XVI | deafening continuous din awaked by every stone against which
332 XXIII | heartily.”~“Well, let us rest awhile; and then we will start
333 III | what I was about, like an awkward and unlucky lover, I had
334 XXXV | but revolving on its own axis with astonishing velocity,
335 III | I y l o a u~l o l w r b~o u , n G e~v w m d r n~
336 XIV | has uttered her voice, let babblers hold their peace.’~I returned
337 XXXIX | resembled the human, some ape or baboon of the early geological
338 XIV | either by the splendours of Babylon or the wonders of Greece.~
339 XXXII | his support. Then mydream backed even farther still into
340 XLI | catastrophe. We kept our backs to the wind, not to be stifled
341 III | he resumed, “Avicenna, Bacon, Lully, Paracelsus, were
342 XIII | At five next morning we bade our host farewell, my uncle
343 XXVI | things had not gone on so badly, and that I had small reason
344 XIII | kitchen, the weaving shop, the badstofa, or family sleeping-room,
345 XLIV | here was something that baffled us completely. I could not
346 XLII | and not exhausted, empty bags.”~“Well, let us consume
347 XVIII | such as the mines of Kitz Bahl in Tyrol, and those of Wuttembourg
348 XXXI | some lines, and see if the bait will draw here as it does
349 XVII | thuds of the descending bale. My uncle, leaning over
350 XXXV | the clouds resemble great bales of cotton, piled up in picturesque
351 XXXV | again roll themselves into balls of living fire which explode
352 XXIX | too faint and weak. I have bandaged your head with compresses
353 XI | tape of unbleached linen, bandages and compresses, lint, a
354 XLI | into endless ribbons and bands, so that we seemed confined
355 III | against the notion that these barbarous words could belong to the
356 XI | was demanded. Never was bargain more readily concluded.~
357 XXX | only of an elastic crust or bark, alternately acted on by
358 Pre | north, whom distance has not barred from the claim of being
359 XVII | the contact of elementary bases of metals with water. I
360 XXXVI | left in all these granite basins; therefore we shall have
361 XXV | sudden rage. “What is the basis of them all? How do you
362 XVIII | cart wheels, no cries of basket women, no boatmen shouting!”~“
363 VIII | each provided with a little bathing house, and moving about
364 XLIV | was shaken and bruised and battered all over. I found myself
365 VI | But I kept my dialectic battery in reserve for a suitable
366 IX | we sighted east of us the beacon on Cape Skagen, where dangerous
367 XVI | surface, had its share of the beaming torrent, and threw its shadow
368 XIII | several times against the beams that projected from the
369 XIX | The heat was perfectly bearable. Involuntarily I began to
370 XLIV | clothed, with ragged hair and beards, we were a suspicious-looking
371 XIV | crestfallen. My uncle had beaten me with the weapons of science.
372 XLII | do; as long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul
373 XIX | structures which looked like beaver’s huts, and we had to creep
374 I | their way through Hamburg. Becquerel, Ebelman, Brewster, Dumas,
375 V | upon the paper, with eyes bedimmed, and voice choked with emotion,
376 XI | know that of essence of beef and biscuits there were
377 X | scientific questions as befits philosophers; but Professor
378 XL | circumstances have wonderfully befriended us hitherto?”~“You think
379 XII | lava, looking like a poor beggar by the wayside. These ruinous
380 XLI | opposing mass of granite.~I begged for the honour of lighting
381 XXXVII | dangers met, had all to be begun over again. We had gone
382 I | concluded that she was very much behindhand, for the dinner had only
383 XI | at once that he would be beholden to nobody, that he worked
384 XXXV | fiery volcanic hills, each belching forth its own interior flames,
385 XXXVIII| France, Switzerland, and Belgium, as well as weapons, tools,
386 XLV | and determination, both by believers and sceptics. Rare privilege!
387 XVIII | 4°. This gave reason for believing that our descent was more
388 XXXVI | under Germany, under my beloved town of Hamburg, under the
389 Pre | in the luxury of extended beneficence, remember the distress of
390 XLIV | German:~“Was heiszt diesen Berg, mein Knablein? Sage mir
391 XIII | liquid prepared from juniper berries; for beverage we had a thin
392 IX | the schooner took a wide berth and swept at a great distance
393 VIII | owners for the time of two berths, one over the other, in
394 IV | I was. A mineralogist at Besançon had just sent us a collection
395 | beside
396 XI | gestures. His whole appearance bespoke perfect calmness and self-possession,
397 Pre | feelings may prompt them to bestow will be gladly added to
398 VIII | pocket in his portfolio. I bestowed a malediction upon it, and
399 XIII | the next morning we had to bestride our beasts again.~The soil
400 XI | cordial farewell. Then we bestrode our steeds and with his
401 XXVI | that I was lost. I was only bewildered for a time, not lost. I
402 XVII | on end with terror. The bewildering feeling of vacuity laid
403 II | liable to occasional fits of bibliomania; but no old book had any
404 XXXVII | satisfaction. Fancy an enthusiastic bibliomaniac suddenly brought into the
405 XI | Bunsen pile worked with bichromate of potash, which makes no
406 V | and two trillions, eight billions, a hundred and seventy-six
407 XLI | rose up in an enormous billow, on the ridge of which the
408 XXXI | cried.~“It is fir, pine, or birch, and other northern coniferae,
409 XXXIX | the Norwegian pine, the birch-tree of the north mingled its
410 XIII | unless we except a few dwarf birches as low as brushwood. Not
411 XI | the female, a very pretty bird, goes to build her nest
412 XXXIII | I leave the Professor to bite his lips with impatience.
413 XIII | milk, of which my nose made bitter complaints.~When we had
414 II | and peats! And there were bitumens, resins, organic salts,
415 XI | individual was called Hans Bjelke; and he came recommended
416 XXVII | to vanish and the dense blackness to come rolling in palpably
417 XIII | which were formed of sheep’s bladder, not admitting too much
418 XIII | called in this country ‘blanda.’ It is not for me to decide
419 III | and carefully examined the blank pages of the book. On the
420 XXIX | covered with thick coats and blankets. My uncle was watching over
421 Pre | torn by earthquakes nor blasted and ravaged by volcanic
422 XXXIX | tertiary period in its fullest blaze of magnificence. Tall palms,
423 XLIV | lavishing upon us out of his blazing splendours more of his light
424 XXXVII | field, a vast plain, of bleached bones lay spread before
425 XLIV | world. We had exchanged the bleak regions of perpetual snow
426 XVIII | Don’t you admire those blending hues of lava, passing from
427 XXVI | loss of time.~How I then blessed my uncle’s foresight in
428 XL | put us on the right way. Blessings on that storm! It has brought
429 XXXIII | around. The spray almost blinds us. But soon the reptile’
430 XLIV | southern sun, which was blistering us with the heat, and blinding
431 XVIII | certain asperities and a few blisterings here and there formed steps,
432 XVIII | covered with small rounded blisters; crystals of opaque quartz,
433 XV | altogether behind the huge blocks, then a shrill whistle would
434 IX | looked like robust but heavy, blond Germans with pensive eyes,
435 III | Gräuben was a lovely blue-eyed blonde, rather given to gravity
436 XLIII | quivering air and spatter the blood-stained ground.~
437 X | lost expedition of M. de Blosseville in the Lilloise which has
438 XLIV | fire and wind from its vast blowholes. Beneath, down a pretty
439 XLI | On the other side of the blown-up rock was an abyss. The explosion
440 I | his magnetic needles, his blowpipe, and his bottle of nitric
441 III | ours. Gräuben was a lovely blue-eyed blonde, rather given to
442 XI | medicine chest, containing blunt scissors, splints for broken
443 XXXIX | three hundred years, and has blunted its edge upon the rocks
444 XVII | any possible danger that I blushed at the idea of being less
445 XLV | deservedly won; and he may even boast the distinguished honour
446 XVIII | cries of basket women, no boatmen shouting!”~“No doubt it
447 XV | a vegetable fibrous peat bog, left from the ancient vegetation
448 XIII | event marked the next day. Bogs, dead levels, melancholy
449 XVIII | those of Wuttembourg in Bohemia.~The temperature, which
450 XI | A chronometer, made by Boissonnas, jun., of Geneva, accurately
451 XXX | waters slept untouched by the boisterous winds. A brig and two or
452 XLII | approaching before which the boldest spirit must quail. A dim,
453 XXXV | fire which explode like bombshells, but the music of which
454 VI | second shelf in the large bookcase, series Z, plate 4.”~I rose,
455 XXXVIII| cemetery St. Michel, at Bordeaux, preserved it thus for so
456 XXXIX | those forests of fungi which bordered Port Gräuben.~Here was the
457 XXX | origin. It was like an aurora borealis, a continuous cosmical phenomenon,
458 VI | Not at all, for I was not born until nineteen years afterwards.”~“
459 XXXII | made of a third, a blanket borrowed from our coverings made
460 XXX | admire it all. Never had botanist such a feast as this!”~“
461 XXXIX | classifier of terrestrial botany.~Suddenly I halted. I drew
462 XXXVIII| under the direction of M. Boucher de Perthes, in the stone
463 XXXIX | wielded with ease an enormous bough, a staff worthy of this
464 XXXIX | old decaying trunks. The boughs cracked, and the leaves
465 XVI | their loosened beds, rushed bounding down the abyss, and in their
466 XXIV | at the thought that the boundless ocean was rolling over my
467 XLII | into play after this last bout was that of hearing. All
468 XLIV | was hidden in a perfect bower of rich verdure, amongst
469 III | darting out like a shot, bowling down stairs like an avalanche,
470 XXXV | bound to the mast, which bows like a reed before the mighty
471 I | was like a knife blade. Boys have been heard to remark
472 II | seven hundred years. Why, Bozerian, Closs, or Purgold might
473 XI | of Purdy’s rifles and two brace of pistols. But what did
474 XXXI | the planks of surturbrand, braced strongly together with cords,
475 IX | maidens, they wore over their braided hair a little knitted brown
476 VIII | their black throats between branches of alder and willow.~But,
477 XII | stage, the aolkirkja of Brantär and one mile farther on,
478 XIII | had three or four of these brats on our shoulders, as many
479 VII | espied my little Gräuben bravely returning with her light
480 VII | the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures. Reason has
481 XXX | which went on their way in brawling but pellucid streams. A
482 XXXII | untwists his trunk, and brays and pounds with his huge
483 XXXII | found in the caverns of Brazil; the merycotherium (ruminating
484 XXIV | the stream at my feet.~We breakfasted, and drank of this excellent
485 XXXVI | a good appetite.~Whilst breakfasting I took the opportunity to
486 XV | never spoke, and ate their breakfasts in silence.~We were now
487 XXXII | is the matter?” my uncle breaks in.~My staring eyes are
488 XIV | even to the very air we breathed in the pastoral house, infected
489 XXV | rid of even that by quick breathing whenever you feel the pain.”~“
490 VIII | to the Phoenix Hotel in Breda Gate. This took half an
491 IX | on her way urged by the breezes of the Cattegat.~The Valkyria
492 XXX | besides, the dense and breezy air invigorated me, supplying
493 Pre | remember the distress of their brethren in the far north, whom distance
494 XXXV | unconsciously. But their very brevity and their obscurity reveal
495 XIV | that an eruption is not brewing at this very moment? Does
496 I | Hamburg. Becquerel, Ebelman, Brewster, Dumas, Milne-Edwards, Saint-Claire-Deville
497 XIII | such miscellaneous fuel as briars, cow-dung, and fishbones.
498 I | Königstrasse, a structure half brick and half wood, with a gable
499 XXXI | are the finest arches of bridges and the arcades of cathedrals,
500 XXX | the boisterous winds. A brig and two or three schooners
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