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1001 XXIII | could be better for the digestion,” said my uncle. “It is
1002 XXXV | disorder. By degrees they dilate, and gain in huge size what
1003 VIII | ramparts, whose huge arms dilated in the sea breeze like the
1004 XLII | anxiety about the future. By diligent search he had found a flask
1005 III | book and the parchment, and diligently compared them together.~“
1006 XXXVIII| of Moulin Quignon was not diluvial at all, but was of much
1007 VI | number of volcanoes has diminished since the first days of
1008 XLIII | heat increased, instead of diminishing, as we approached nearer
1009 XXXII | floating islands. Over the dimly lighted strand there trod
1010 XI | articles. In the evening we dined with Baron Tramps; the mayor
1011 V | replied.~“Is it really? The dinner-hour is past, and I did not know
1012 III | is lucky I have eaten two dinners to-day!”~“First of all we
1013 IV | tyrant, I will do it. By dint of turning this document
1014 XXVIII | wonderful of which is called Dionysius’ Ear.~These remembrances
1015 XXIV | ground gone over.~The gallery dipped down a very little way from
1016 XXXII | the extinct family of the dipterides, but of which my uncle could
1017 XII | regions subject to the dire phenomena of eruptions,
1018 VIII | to perdition the railway directors and the steamboat companies
1019 XI | that he and the Governor disagreed upon some question of administration,
1020 XXXI | The bit of wood, after disappearing, returned to the surface
1021 XXXV | fire!~Then all the light disappears. I could just see my uncle
1022 XL | farther. I felt fearfully disappointed, and I would not admit that
1023 XXIII | uttered a cry of grief and disappointment, of which I soon under-.
1024 XIV | pyramids, with a fantastic disarrangement of lines; but here, as if
1025 XLI | left us; and, irreparable disaster! we had only one day’s provisions
1026 VI | all the active volcanoes discharge through beds of ice. Hence
1027 VI | Professor in the tone of a meek disciple. “Oh! unpleasant theories!
1028 XIII | so much comfort; the only discomfort proceeded from the strong
1029 VII | one whom she loved!~I was disconcerted, and, if I must tell the
1030 IV | return in triumph or in discouragement? Which would get the upper
1031 VI | before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.”~
1032 VI | legion of speculation, I can discuss the matter no longer.”~“
1033 XLV | upon, picked to pieces, discussed, attacked, and defended
1034 XLIV | My opinion is,” I replied disdainfully, “that it is best not to
1035 XIII | repulsive effect. The horrible disease of leprosy is too common
1036 I | shall have said enough to disenchant any one who should by mistake
1037 IV | sheet of paper mysteriously disfigured with the incomprehensible
1038 XLIV | Why, it would be simply disgraceful!”~And as he spoke, my uncle,
1039 VI | shrugging my shoulders, and disgusted at such a ridiculous supposition.~“
1040 XXI | new world, those crews, disheartened and sick as they were, recognised
1041 VIII | curator; we were simply disinterested travellers visiting Iceland
1042 XXXV | up; but no, the dazzling disk of mysterious light nimbly
1043 XXXVII | tremendous power effecting the dislocation of strata.~[1] The glyptodon
1044 XLIII | unintermitting thunder.~Then the disordered compass, thrown out of gear
1045 XLIII | northern region. Before its disorders set in, the needle had never
1046 XIII | calmly, automatically, and dispassionately he kissed the host, the
1047 XXIII | structure. Suppose some displacement should occur and crush us
1048 XXXII | pterichthys. But this one displays a peculiarity confined to
1049 VIII | this subject. The captain disposed of us summarily.~At Kiel,
1050 XXXVIII| had maintained his ground, disputed, and argued, until M. Elie
1051 XVII | indifference, such perfect disregard of any possible danger that
1052 XXII | gave rise in its crust to disruptions, distortions, fissures,
1053 XL | I obeyed, not without dissatisfaction, and passed out rapidly
1054 XXXIX | abruptly on my way to a dissertation which would have taken me
1055 XLI | hope left of being able to dissipate the palpable darkness. We
1056 XXXII | by imperceptible degrees dissolves into a gaseous mass, glowing
1057 VII | What, Gräuben, won’t you dissuade me from such an undertaking?”~“
1058 XXIII | I had some difficulty in dissuading him; still he had just taken
1059 IV | cried, after having well distended my lungs with air.~I leaned
1060 XXII | came out with increasing distinctness. Geologists consider this
1061 XXII | earth, which bears without distortion or crushing the weight of
1062 XXII | its crust to disruptions, distortions, fissures, and chasms. The
1063 XXXIX | kauris. It was enough to distract the most ingenious classifier
1064 VII | coming and going. Martha was distracted.~“Is master mad?” she asked.~
1065 XXXI | Oh, I am not going to dive head foremost. But if all
1066 XL | this globe into which I had dived; its cities and its sunny
1067 XXIII | endowed with the gift of divers tongues. I did not know
1068 XX | with ease trace all its diverse phases. The beds of coal
1069 II | little incident happened to divert conversation into another
1070 XVII | look to our loads. I will divide them into three lots; each
1071 XXX | enormous height. Some of these, dividing the beach with their sharp
1072 XXVII | prayer imploring for the Divine help of which I was so little
1073 XXXIII | its rows of teeth! It is diving down!”~“There’s a whale,
1074 VI | renown? If that document were divulged, a whole army of geologists
1075 VIII | look. My first lesson in dizziness lasted an hour. When I got
1076 XXV | carefully:~[1] tpwgln, a hole; dnw, to creep into. The name
1077 VIII | touched the quay of the dockyard.~After crossing a few narrow
1078 XXXIV | does that make against my doctrine?”~“Oh, nothing at all,”
1079 XLII | seemed ruled by the fatalist doctrines of the East?~As for me,
1080 VIII | of detail.~Amongst other documents, a sheet of paper, carefully
1081 II | ever see such a binding? Doesn’t the book open easily?
1082 XXVIII | surface of the gallery of the dome of St. Paul’s in London,
1083 XXX | they formed settlements of domes placed in close array like
1084 XXXV | of the excitement which dominated me, and describe the actual
1085 XXXIV | enormous cetacean, whose head dominates the waves at a height of
1086 I | retreated in safety into her own dominions.~I was left alone. But how
1087 XLIII | feeling of an unhappy criminal doomed to be blown away alive from
1088 IX | sumptuous lodge for the doorkeeper of the straits of the Sound,
1089 IV | the violent slamming of doors.~“Yes,” I replied, “completely
1090 XLIV | numbers that they seemed to dot the sea like a shoal. To
1091 VIII | stretched away to Elsinore, dotted with a few white sails,
1092 IX | At evening the schooner doubled the Skaw at the northern
1093 XXXIV | to my uncle, who replies doubtfully: “Yes, I am convinced that
1094 XXXIX | therefore whole generations doubtless besides, should be buried
1095 XLIV | my uncle; and he said:~“Dove noi siamo?”~“Yes, where
1096 III | in her absence I was very downhearted; for I may confess it to
1097 XXXVII | then incredulity, lastly a downright burst of rage. Never had
1098 XI | a hatchet, a hammer, a dozen wedges and iron spikes,
1099 VIII | twisted tails of four bronze dragons, nor the great windmill
1100 XXXIII | fearfully bent upon the sea. I dread to see one of these monsters
1101 VII | unhappy boy! Could I have dreamed that yon would have gone
1102 III | he went on once or twice dreamily. “Well, let us apply the
1103 XXXIII | dream.~My uncle has had no dreams, but he is out of temper.
1104 XI | Certainly I should never have dreamt in looking at this man that
1105 XI | intelligent; they were of a dreamy sea-blue. Long hair, which
1106 XXVI | very far. But there was a dreary silence in all that long
1107 XXXII | ruminating beast), found in the ‘drift’ of iceclad Siberia. Farther
1108 VIII | head ragged clouds were drifting past, and by an optical
1109 VII | the horses, roused by the driver’s whistling, darted off
1110 XVI | heavy, cloudy sky seemed to droop over the summit of the cone.
1111 XXXIII | again, coils and uncoils, droops, lashes the waters like
1112 XLI | impression that we were dropping vertically. My uncle’s hand,
1113 XLII | Professor:~“If we are neither drowned, nor shattered to pieces,
1114 XLI | I was suffocating! I was drowning!~But this sudden flood was
1115 XI | lead, vinegar, and ammonia drugs which afforded me no comfort.
1116 XXIII | precious liquid; he had drunk nothing himself.~Soon it
1117 XVII | mounting into my brain like drunkenness. There is nothing more treacherous
1118 IX | the population busied in drying, salting, and putting on
1119 III | ieaabs~ccrmi eevtVl frAntv~dt,iac oseibo KediiI~ [Redactor:
1120 XVI | crevasses in it. At particularly dubious passages we were obliged
1121 XXXVIII| Teutobochus, the invader of Gaul, dug out of a sandpit in the
1122 I | Becquerel, Ebelman, Brewster, Dumas, Milne-Edwards, Saint-Claire-Deville
1123 XLIII | granite roof of our burning dungeon.~I have therefore no exact
1124 X | sent out in 1835 by Admiral Duperré to learn the fate of the
1125 XLI | sudden flood was not of long duration. In a few seconds I found
1126 XXXIV | distant from it. Its body —dusky, enormous, hillocky — lies
1127 II | own age, I had preferred dusting these graphites, anthracites,
1128 X | very serviceable, but the duties of your profession —”~I
1129 XIII | unless we except a few dwarf birches as low as brushwood.
1130 XXXIX | world; no generation of men dwells in those inferior caverns
1131 XXXVI | under the very street where dwelt all that I loved most in
1132 XVIII | 6° (43° F.). Direction, E.S.E.”~This last observation applied
1133 XXXIX | gazing with intense and eager interest.~“Come on!” said
1134 II | I asked with an affected eagerness which he must have been
1135 VIII | neither the equilibrium of an eagle nor his fearless nature.~
1136 XVII | stones were meeting with an earlier resistance, and that the
1137 XXIV | winding from side to side, earned us past unexpected turns,
1138 VII | Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate
1139 XXXVIII| well as weapons, tools, earthen utensils, bones of children
1140 IX | Rejkiavik coal, household goods, earthenware, woollen clothing, and a
1141 XXXVIII| to clear it from all the earthy particles and the shells
1142 XLIV | compass of only a few leagues. Eastward lay a pretty little white
1143 II | thrown himself into a velvet easy-chair, and was grasping between
1144 XXXIX | rubiceæ and many other eatable shrubs, dear to ruminant
1145 XII | be slack water. Then the ebb and flow have no sensible
1146 I | through Hamburg. Becquerel, Ebelman, Brewster, Dumas, Milne-Edwards,
1147 XXXVIII| provoked by his learned eccentricities.~“Yes,” he pursued with
1148 III | mmessvnkaSenrA.icefdoK.segnittamvrtn~ecertserrette,rotaisadva,ednecsedsadne~
1149 XXVIII | own, brought back by the echo. Perhaps I had been crying
1150 XXII | remedy. My uncle’s last words echoed painfully in my ears: “it’
1151 XXX | this shore with the hollow echoing murmur peculiar to vast
1152 XIII | that is to say, he had economically let them loose in the fields,
1153 XI | scarcely moved. He carried economy of motion even to parsimony.~
1154 XVI | steeped in the marvellous ecstasy which all high summits develop
1155 XLI | occasionally seized by an eddy, spun round as it still
1156 XXXIII | below, leaving a whirlpool eddying in the water. Several minutes
1157 XXXVI | not torn over the sharp edges of the rocks, it was because
1158 XI | said the Professor for my edification.~The treaty concluded, Hans
1159 VIII | the beautiful renaissance edifice of the Exchange, nor its
1160 Pre | information in a future edition.~The scientific portion
1161 III | ecertserrette,rotaisadva,ednecsedsadne~lacartniiilvIsiratracSarbmvtabiledmek~
1162 X | It publishes books which educate our fellow-countrymen, and
1163 XXXV | like that from an electric eel.~At ten in the morning the
1164 III | Atsaar .nvcrc ieaabs~ccrmi eevtVl frAntv~dt,iac oseibo KediiI~ [
1165 III | Iyloau lolwrb ou,nGe vwmdrn eeyea!~ “Excellent!” said my uncle,
1166 XII | however slow, would soon efface the rare travellers’ footsteps.~
1167 XXXVII | to some tremendous power effecting the dislocation of strata.~[
1168 XX | some obstacle which should effectually turn us back on our own
1169 XXXV | spot. At last by a violent effort I release myself at the
1170 XXIII | pressure was too great, and our efforts were fruitless.~“It is quite
1171 XI | refused with one word:~“Efter,“ said he.~“After,” said
1172 XI | female therefore lays her eggs in the spoils of her mate,
1173 I | others. He was a learned egotist. He was a well of science,
1174 XV | lesser craters, supplied an egress to lava, ashes, and scoriae,
1175 XLV | strongly attached to our brave eider-down hunter; though far away
1176 X | that peninsula He is an eiderdown hunter, and very clever.
1177 XI | instruments were:~1. An Eigel’s centigrade thermometer,
1178 XXXVIII| Dauphiné, in 1613. In the eighteenth century I would have stood
1179 XXXVI | cannot have been less than eighty leagues in the twenty-four
1180 XXV | by a diagonal descent of eighty-four, it follows that we must
1181 IV | English word ‘ice’; the eighty-third and two following made ‘
1182 XXXIII | less than one hundred and eighty-two teeth.~The plesiosaurus,
1183 II | he was exclaiming.~These ejaculations brought to my mind the fact
1184 XII | pingstaœr’ or parish called Ejulberg, from whose steeple twelve
1185 XL | to him. Many years have elapsed since the return of Saknussemm
1186 XIII | children disappeared, and their elders gathered round the peat
1187 XXXV | stool under the action of an electrical machine. It seems to me
1188 VII | instrument makers and the electricians kept coming and going. Martha
1189 Pre | expected in a work in which the element of amusement is intended
1190 XXXV | satisfaction this awful display of elemental strife.~Hans stirs not.
1191 XXXIX | in 1801. I saw those huge elephants whose long, flexible trunks
1192 XXXIX | FOREST SCENERY ILLUMINATED BY ELETRICITY~For another half hour we
1193 XIII | to be haunted by all the elfins of Scandinavia. The ice
1194 X | dinner my uncle had just elicited important facts, amongst
1195 XIX | or heads under corniced elliptic arches in the romanesque
1196 I | stood firm, thanks to an old elm which buttressed it in front,
1197 XXXV | light play of a lambent St. Elmo’s fire; the outstretched
1198 XXXVII | because he was deaf to all my eloquence.~“To the raft!” he shouted.~
1199 XVI | was, to live the life of elves and sylphs, the fanciful
1200 XXXIX | point from which the light emanated, that shadows no longer
1201 XXII | suffering too keenly, and what embittered my thoughts was that there
1202 XXXVIII| pleiocene formation had emboldened other geologists to refer
1203 VIII | make it look like a nest embowered amongst thick foliage, admiring
1204 V | smother me in his first joyful embraces. But he became so urgent
1205 XXV | direction; so that we shall emerge from some point in the earth’
1206 IX | Bay.~The Professor at last emerged from his cabin, rather pale
1207 XII | moving mists, like breakers emerging in the heavens.~Often these
1208 XXXV | clouds there are continual emissions of lurid light; electric
1209 XXXV | our iron tools they too emit gleams and flashes of lurid
1210 VII | silence, pursued our way. The emotions of that day were breaking
1211 XIV | I replied with forcible emphasis.~“For six hundred years
1212 I | the table, and these few emphatic words at his nephew:~“Axel,
1213 XIII | taciturnity resumed its empire even over the children.
1214 XXI | And raising his flask he emptied it every drop between my
1215 III | kt,samn atrateS saodrrn~emtnaeI nvaect rrilSa~Atsaar .nvcrc
1216 XI | light into deep darkness; it enables one to venture without fear
1217 XLIV | appeared to enclose this enchanting island, within a compass
1218 XLIV | lake, which appeared to enclose this enchanting island,
1219 II | avidity. An old document, enclosed an immemorial time within
1220 XXXI | but lakes, since they are encompassed by land, of course this
1221 XII | dip towards the sea, and encroached upon the scanty pasturage:
1222 XXXI | waves were by slow degrees encroaching on the shore.~“Here is the
1223 VII | undertaking. The passage was encumbered with rope ladders, knotted
1224 XLV | certainly I shall not fail to endeavour to see him once more before
1225 XII | arguments with kicks and endeavours to throw his rider. At last
1226 XXI | throat, and I could not even endure the sight of it. I found
1227 XXI | speak of the sufferings we endured in our return. My uncle
1228 XXXIII | he sees on the other hand enemies not less terrible; a tortoise
1229 XI | little attention to his energetic directions.~At six o’clock
1230 IV | shall not be,” I declared energetically; “and as it is in my power
1231 XLIV | appellet-on cette montagne, mon enfant?”~Silence still.~“Now let
1232 XLII | allowed ourselves to be enfeebled by hunger?”~“Well, uncle,
1233 X | M. Fridrikssen, “that my engagements will not allow me to absent
1234 VIII | The whistle sounded, the engine started, we were off.~Was
1235 Pre | be made widely known in English-speaking countries by means of carefully
1236 XVIII | At the moment of becoming engulfed in this dark gallery, I
1237 VI | things,” my uncle resumed, “I enjoin you to preserve the most
1238 X | spoke to me with his eyes, enjoining the most absolute silence
1239 XXX | was the height of physical enjoyment to breathe a moist air impregnated
1240 III | honour I could not have enlightened him. Besides he did not
1241 XIV | that in our flasks, would ensure us a supply of water for
1242 XXXVIII| kind. I know what capital enterprising individuals like Barnum
1243 XXXV | nitrogen fills the air, it enters the throat, it fills the
1244 XXXVII | ashes! just such a crazed enthusiast was my uncle, Professor
1245 XIII | also a dining-room.~At our entrance the host, as if he had never
1246 XIV | there spread out vaulted entrances in beautiful curves, into
1247 XXXVII | It was no use for me to entreat, supplicate, get angry,
1248 XLV | faithful Hans, in spite of our entreaties, had left Hamburg; the man
1249 XXXII | every observation, make entries of interesting phenomena,
1250 XXXII | Professor Liedenbrock had entrusted the log to my care; I was
1251 I | elementary substances now enumerated, by its fracture, its appearance,
1252 IX | not only the town but its environs. The general aspect was
1253 XVII | them. Pliocene, miocene, eocene, cretaceous, jurassic, triassic,
1254 IX | that moment engaged on an episcopal visitation in the north.
1255 XXX | just before the glacial epoch, and therefore could have
1256 II | presence of the republican equality of scientific specimens;
1257 XX | heat, equal from pole to equator, was spread over the whole
1258 XI | tools.~“Clothed, shod, and equipped like this,” said my uncle, “
1259 XVI | whole crater to an enormous erected mortar, and the comparison
1260 XLIII | degree of north latitude, the Esk in Jan Mayen Island, not
1261 VII | realised; for shortly I espied my little Gräuben bravely
1262 IX | creatures who should have been Esquimaux, since nature had condemned
1263 III | remarkable result:~ mm.rnlls esrevel seecIde~sgtssmf vnteief
1264 XI | comforting to know that of essence of beef and biscuits there
1265 VIII | curator of this curious establishment, in which wonders are gathered
1266 XX | before us, prevented us from estimating the length of the gallery;
1267 XLII | central fire remained in my estimation the only one that was true
1268 XI | containing dextrine, alcoholic ether, liquid acetate of lead,
1269 VI | the greatest cold of the ethereal regions is never lower than
1270 XXV | creep into. The name of an Ethiopian tribe who lived in caves
1271 XLIV | the south was the fierce Etna.~“Stromboli, Stromboli!”
1272 XXXIX | by side, the Australian eucalyptus leaned against the Norwegian
1273 III | pertubata seu inordinata,“ as Euclid has it.”~“Very well,” thought
1274 XL | into a somewhat rhapsodical eulogium, of which Arne Saknussemm
1275 I | collection, the fame of which is European.~Such was the gentleman
1276 XXXVIII| the circumstances of our eventful journey, forgot where we
1277 I | the success which might eventually crown his labours. Such
1278 XVIII | reason to fear that this ever-increasing pressure will become at
1279 XIV | made me forgetful of coming evils; but now my fears again
1280 XXXV | electric matter is in continual evolution from their component molecules;
1281 V | say to myself that I was exaggerating the importance of the document;
1282 XXXIII | he is out of temper. He examines the horizon all round with
1283 XXVIII | the rock. There are many examples of this propagation of sounds
1284 XXXVIII| 28th of March, 1863, some excavators working under the direction
1285 XVIII | of the atmosphere should exceed the pressure ascertained
1286 XLI | which were carrying us away exceeded that of the swiftest rapids
1287 I | freely confess that I was exceedingly fond of geology and all
1288 XI | explosive force of which exceeds that of gunpowder.~[1] In
1289 XLIV | region in the world. We had exchanged the bleak regions of perpetual
1290 XLV | much honour could not but excite envy. There were those who
1291 VI | CHAPTER VI.~EXCITING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AN UNPARALLELED
1292 II | wonderful book!” he was exclaiming.~These ejaculations brought
1293 XI | from which the air has been excluded, and in which remains only
1294 XII | whip or voice. He had no excuse for being impatient. I could
1295 XL | astonishments that I might well be excused for thinking myself well
1296 XI | uncle made more noise than execution, and the guide seemed to
1297 XLV | its inexplicable behaviour exercised my mind fearfully. On the
1298 XXII | myself with imaginary violent exertions to turn round upon my granite
1299 XV | fiery mouths.~After the exhaustion of the basalt, the volcano,
1300 XIV | upon the earth. Hans had exhibited great intelligence, and
1301 XXXVI | storm had disappeared. The exhilarating voice of the Professor fell
1302 IX | their fellow creatures, poor exiles relegated to this land of
1303 XX | the high temperature then existing was due to some other source
1304 XLIV | at least his countenance expanded in a manner very unusual
1305 XL | pounds of guncotton, whose expansive force is four times that
1306 XLIV | but contrary to all our expectations, my uncle, the Icelander,
1307 XIII | sentences. I was hardly expecting so much comfort; the only
1308 XXXII | of travelling both more expeditious and less fatiguing than
1309 XLIII | going to be pitched out, expelled, tossed up, vomited, spit
1310 I | which failed to cover its expenses.~To all these titles to
1311 XLII | our breath short, as is experienced by aeronauts ascending too
1312 VI | before the empty table. Explanations were given, Martha was set
1313 XLII | only one that was true and explicable. Were we then turning back
1314 IX | board codfish, their chief export. The men looked like robust
1315 XXIX | rather strong. You must not expose yourself.”~“But I assure
1316 IX | inquire the road, which exposes one to mistakes when the
1317 XXI | you were before, and still expressing only despair!”~What sort
1318 IX | faces were agreeable but expressionless, and they wore gowns and
1319 XL | hand; but at one time the expulsive force was greater than usual,
1320 X | Saknussemm, put into the Index Expurgatorius, and compelled to hide the
1321 XXIV | are there not coal mines extending far under the sea?”~It was
1322 XV | the earth slowly spread in extensive plains or in hillocky masses.
1323 XV | power of which grew by the extinction of the lesser craters, supplied
1324 XVIII | go on.”~The biscuit and extract of meat were washed down
1325 Pre | PREFACE~THE “Voyages Extraordinaires” of M. Jules Verne deserve
1326 XLV | with his triumphant leap of exultation.~A light broke in upon his
1327 XLIII | replied the Professor, eyeing me over his spectacles, “
1328 XXXIII | sleep weighs down the weary eyelids, for there is no night here,
1329 XLIII | what was the use of saying facetious things at a time like this?~“
1330 XXII | reflected from the small facets of quartz, shot sparkling
1331 XVIII | steep inclines. It was the facifs descensus Averni of Virgil.
1332 I | zirconium, why, the most facile of tongues may make a slip
1333 XV | unexpectedly which greatly facilitated our ascent. It was formed
1334 IX | the way to get to it, the facilities for transport, he was obliged
1335 XV | allowed us to rise with facility, and even with such rapidity
1336 XXXVII | astonishment. Here he stood facing an immense collection of
1337 II | characters.~Here is the exact facsimile. I think it important to
1338 XXVI | exercise for the thinking faculty!~During the fortnight following
1339 XII | degraded to a foot soldier.~“Färja,“ said the guide, touching
1340 VI | each case substitute the Fahrenheit measurement. (Tr.)~“What
1341 XXII | CHAPTER XXII.~TOTAL FAILURE OF WATER~This time the descent
1342 VIII | north-east lay outstretched the faintly-shadowed shores of Sweden. All this
1343 XIII | Every moment I noticed a fair-haired and rather melancholy face
1344 XXII | man of such extraordinary faithfulness. Instead of ascending he
1345 XXXVIII| certainty of the fact — Messrs. Falconer, Busk, Carpenter, and others —
1346 VII | ready,” I replied, with faltering voice.~“Then make haste
1347 XXXIII | representatives of long extinct families? No; surely it cannot be!
1348 XXXVII | restraint upon this unmeasured fanaticism.~“Just listen to me,” I
1349 XXIII | was nothing vain in these fancies. But still no fears of falling
1350 XVI | of elves and sylphs, the fanciful creation of Scandinavian
1351 IV | wanted air. Unconsciously I fanned myself with the bit of paper,
1352 XX | some of a greyish agate fantastically veined with white, others
1353 XLIV | Snæfell and from that barren, far-away Iceland! The strange chances
1354 XXXI | able to vary our bill of fare now and then. For dessert
1355 VIII | enthusiasm to charge double fares; but we did not trouble
1356 XII | Here and there was a lonely farm, called a boër built either
1357 IX | turned her lead towards the Faroe Islands, passing between
1358 XLV | even a name in English.~“Farval,“ said he one day; and with
1359 I | retinasphaltic resins, gehlenites, Fassaites, molybdenites, tungstates
1360 XLI | were moving faster than the fastest express trains. To light
1361 XXVII | had left the stream, that fatal turn in the road. With the
1362 XLII | who seemed ruled by the fatalist doctrines of the East?~As
1363 XXXIII | the voyage prospering as favourably as possible under the circumstances?
1364 XXXIV | we have been wonderfully favoured, and that for some reason
1365 XXX | Never had botanist such a feast as this!”~“You are right,
1366 X | hero thus described. He feasted his eyes upon M. Fridrikssen’
1367 VI | science demonstrate such a feat to be impracticable.”~“The
1368 VII | her last touches with the feather brush.~But I had not taken
1369 XI | After building the nest she feathers it with down plucked from
1370 XVI | peaks, some plumed with feathery clouds of smoke. The undulating
1371 XVII | possible, performing wonderful feats of equilibrium upon the
1372 XXXV | from the working of his features, as he sees this vast length
1373 V | terrestre centrum attinges.~Quod feci, Arne Saknussemm. [1]~ Which
1374 XXXIII | the crocodiles, are but feeble reproductions of their forefathers
1375 XXI | Courage?”~“I see you just as feeble-minded as you were before, and
1376 XIII | that their owners would not feed. Sometimes we could see
1377 XXII | closely mingled with the feldspar and quartz to form the proper
1378 XXXVIII| which the celebrated Dr. Felix Plater affirmed to be those
1379 XXXI | What, has he already felled the trees?”~“Oh, the trees
1380 X | books which educate our fellow-countrymen, and do the country great
1381 XL | terrestrial crust; and thy fellow-creatures may even now, after the
1382 XV | To this period belong the felspar, syenites, and porphyries.~
1383 VII | incomprehensible are your feminine hearts! When you are not
1384 XXX | of the deinotherium; this femur must have belonged to the
1385 XX | generated gases and the heat of fermentation, they underwent a process
1386 XXXIII | continues with unabated ferocity. The combatants alternately
1387 VIII | uninteresting loamy and fertile flats, a very easy country
1388 IX | are meadows of comparative fertility. Thanks to the internal
1389 VI | by his usual ardour and fervent enthusiasm.~“You see, Axel,”
1390 X | there on that Seffel — Fessel — what do you call it?”~“
1391 XXXVII | nothing out of a servant so feudalised, as it were, to his master.
1392 XLV | said to me my blushing fiancée, my betrothed, “you will
1393 Pre | cleverly mingled truth and fiction, these books will assuredly
1394 XXXV | heat; hailstones rattle fiercely down, and as they dash upon
1395 IV | be sure the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth letters made
1396 III | predominate, as for instance the fifth, uneeief, or the last but
1397 III | seventy-seven consonants and fifty-five vowels. This is the proportion
1398 XLIV | distinguish the olive, the fig, and vines, covered with
1399 XXXIII | minutes pass by while the fight goes on under water.~All
1400 XXX | these subdued and shaded fights were ribbed in by vast walls
1401 IX | and lettuces), would have figured appropriately upon a Lilliputian
1402 XV | brow.~We walked in single file, headed by the hunter, who
1403 I | magnetised and attracted iron filings. But this was merely a mischievous
1404 II | garnished with spiced sorrel, a fillet of veal with compote of
1405 XXXI | a stretch. What are the finest arches of bridges and the
1406 XIV | Causeway in Ireland, and Fingal’s Cave in Staffa, one of
1407 XXXI | is this?” I cried.~“It is fir, pine, or birch, and other
1408 XXX | tree ferns, as tall as our fir-trees in northern latitudes; lepidodendra,
1409 XLIV | would have set us down for fire-devils vomited out of hell; so
1410 XXXV | unspeakable terror. The fireball, half of it white, half
1411 XXVIII | still on the Hansbach, we fired our guns. Our voices are
1412 XX | dangerous gas called by miners firedamp, the explosion of which
1413 II | little timepiece over the fireplace.~At that moment our good
1414 II | work,” replied my uncle, firing up with renewed enthusiasm, “
1415 XXX | Instead of the shining firmament, spangled with its innumerable
1416 XXXIX | living, splendid palmacites, firs, yews, cypress trees, thujas,
1417 XI | name. As he is assured by a first-rate instrument maker, Chadburn,
1418 XIII | as briars, cow-dung, and fishbones. After this little pinch
1419 IX | and French conservators of fisheries moor in this bay, but just
1420 XIV | the ways and manners of fishermen, hunters, and farriers,
1421 XIV | their livelihood; but after fishing, hunting, and shoeing horses
1422 XLI | kind of earthquake in this fissured and abysmal region; a great
1423 III | he added, holding out his fist towards the table. “Sit
1424 I | that in walking he kept his fists firmly closed, a sure sign
1425 XXXVII | impossibilities; we are not at all fit for another sea voyage;
1426 XXXII | signal to embark. Hans had fitted up a rudder to steer his
1427 IV | together by twos, threes, fives or sixes, nothing came of
1428 XXXV | it approaches Hans, who fixes his blue eye upon it steadily;
1429 XII | quarter, called the ‘Sudvester Fjordungr.’~On leaving Rejkiavik Hans
1430 XXII | laid in large plates or flakes, revealing their lamellated
1431 XLII | lighting the torch; and the flame, preserving its upward tendency,
1432 XLI | lantern. It spluttered and flamed, and I ran at the top of
1433 XXXII | mists, which roll upon their flaming orbits through infinite
1434 XV | avalanche.~At some places the flanks of the mountain formed an
1435 XXXII | the immortal Cuvier again flap their ‘sail-broad vans’
1436 XXXIII | and a short tail, has four flappers or paddles to act like oars.
1437 III | arrived the Professor’s eyes flashed right through his spectacles.
1438 VIII | uninteresting loamy and fertile flats, a very easy country for
1439 XXIII | underground. It has an inky flavour, which is not at all unpleasant.
1440 XXXIV | violently, and has enabled us to flee from the scene of the late
1441 XIV | This worthy couple were fleecing us just as a Swiss innkeeper
1442 XXXV | surface. From time to time a fleecy tuft of mist, with yet some
1443 XXXI | enough almost for a little fleet.~“Uncle, what wood is this?”
1444 XLIII | flying limbs and rags of flesh and skin fill the quivering
1445 XLI | lantern; and although it flickered so much as to threaten to
1446 XXXV | ready to burst. The raft flies at a rate that I cannot
1447 XIX | are still found instead of flights of steps. And so we went
1448 V | his precious nodules of flints together; he sent a kick
1449 XXXI | launched this improvised vessel floated easily upon the waves of
1450 XII | nor one shepherd tending a flock less wild than himself,
1451 XVI | mere continuation of those flock-like summits. The eye could hardly
1452 XXIII | falling rocks or rushing floods could stay us now; and our
1453 VIII | space whirled and wavered, fluctuating beneath my eyes.~But I was
1454 III | cipher will read it with fluency. What is that key? Axel,
1455 II | Not that he could speak fluently in the two thousand languages
1456 II | binding and the leaves are flush, all in a straight line,
1457 IV | thirty-two letters seemed to flutter and fly around me like those
1458 XII | must wait for the tide.”~“Förbida,“ said my uncle.~“Ja,“ replied
1459 VIII | from the skies; a smoke fog seemed to drown them. Over
1460 XLIV | heads the murky sky and cold fogs of the frigid zone to revel
1461 I | appeared at Leipzig an imposing folio by Otto Liedenbrock, entitled, “
1462 XL | to stage, leads the bold follower of your footsteps to the
1463 XXV | descent of eighty-four, it follows that we must go eight thousand
1464 XXXII | and am lost in the endless foods of those vast globular volumes
1465 XXXVII | tempests, and we should be fools and madmen to attempt to
1466 XVI | that any man who missed his footing might be held up by his
1467 XIII | hereditary, and lepers are forbidden to marry.~These apparitions
1468 XIII | rags.~The unhappy being forbore to approach us and offer
1469 XIV | indeed!” I replied with forcible emphasis.~“For six hundred
1470 XIII | streams, which we had to ford with great care, not to
1471 XIII | That evening, after having forded two rivers full of trout
1472 XXXIII | feeble reproductions of their forefathers of primitive ages.~I shudder
1473 X | Well, what would you have? Foreigners have their libraries at
1474 XXXI | am not going to dive head foremost. But if all oceans are properly
1475 XXVI | then blessed my uncle’s foresight in preventing the hunter
1476 XXII | induced so quiet a man to forfeit his sleep. Was he on a journey
1477 XIV | kept me amused, and made me forgetful of coming evils; but now
1478 XX | days we shall get to the fork in the road.” “Yes,” said
1479 XXX | lepidodendra, with cylindrical forked stems, terminated by long
1480 V | very much like algebraic formula: I followed with my eyes
1481 XXII | leaving us? Was Hans going to forsake us? My uncle was fast asleep.
1482 XXVIII | living being been so utterly forsaken.~After my fall I had lost
1483 VIII | trees amongst which the fort is half concealed, where
1484 VI | dinner, which was not yet forthcoming.~It is no use to tell of
1485 XIII | immense system of natural fortifications, of which we were following
1486 XXVI | thinking faculty!~During the fortnight following our last conversation,
1487 XLII | cheered us up slightly.~“Forträfflig,“ said Hans, drinking in
1488 XI | Et quacumque viam dedent fortuna sequamur.”~“Therever fortune
1489 XVI | hear what he would say.~“Forüt!“ was his tranquil answer.~“
1490 XLIV | question in English.~We got no forwarder. I was a good deal puzzled.~“
1491 XXXVIII| joined, and amongst them the forwardest, the most fiery, and the
1492 XXXVII | gone backwards instead of forwards!~But my uncle rapidly recovered
1493 XIX | Murchison to a vast series of fossiliferous strata, which lies between
1494 X | Icelandic blood. In 1816 we founded a prosperous literary society;
1495 XVI | man than he; for it was foundering almost within the port.~
1496 XLII | We are in a tunnel not four-and-twenty feet in diameter The water
1497 XXXIX | midst of a herd of these four-footed giants? Come away, uncle —
1498 VI | not always believed until Fourier that the temperature of
1499 I | substances now enumerated, by its fracture, its appearance, its hardness,
1500 XVI | upper aperture of the cone, framing a bit of sky of very small
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