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Chapter
1501 XI | quinquennial prize of 50,000 franc reserved by the French government
1502 I | Humboldt, Captain Sir John Franklin, General Sabine, never failed
1503 XXIII | cried my uncle, almost frantic with excitement. “Hans is
1504 III | nvcrc ieaabs~ccrmi eevtVl frAntv~dt,iac oseibo KediiI~ [Redactor:
1505 XXXIII | were taking part in the fray — the porpoise, the whale,
1506 XII | and enjoyed the feeling of freedom and satisfied desire. I
1507 XLIII | with a cold 30° below the freezing point. My overheated brain
1508 XXXIII | Weather unchanged. The wind freshens. On awaking, my first thought
1509 XXXVI | give a grand dinner to my friends at the Johannæum.”~I ought
1510 IX | delightful man, and his friendship became very precious to
1511 VIII | the two-deckers and the frigate slept peaceably by the red
1512 XXXIX | edge upon the rocks that fringe this subterranean sea!”~“
1513 XI | with which the coast is fringed. After building the nest
1514 XXXII | judge by, and but for the frothy track of the raft, I might
1515 XVI | Next morning we awoke half frozen by the sharp keen air, but
1516 XII | hour. He shared with us our frugal breakfast; answering my
1517 XXIII | great, and our efforts were fruitless.~“It is quite plain,” said
1518 XXXII | the whole length of the fuci, three or four thousand
1519 XIX | distinct impressions of fucoids and lycopodites.~Professor
1520 XLI | the raft.~I prepared to fulfil my task with some anxiety.~
1521 I | incessant motion behind his full-sized spectacles. His long, thin
1522 XXXIX | the tertiary period in its fullest blaze of magnificence. Tall
1523 VII | my pretty Virlandaise was fully informed of the position
1524 XXVII | light never abdicates its functions altogether. It is still
1525 Pre | Mansion-House Iceland Relief Fund.~In his desire to ascertain
1526 IX | through which the sea dashed furiously. The Westman islets seemed
1527 XLIII | the blasts of vast iron furnaces blowing all at one time;
1528 III | A violent thump made the furniture rattle, and spilt some ink,
1529 VI | fiery gases arising from the fused matter would acquire an
1530 XXI | CHAPTER XXI.~COMPASSION FUSES THE PROFESSOR’S HEART~Next
1531 I | appearance, its hardness, its fusibility, its sonorousness, its smell,
1532 II | was the good of all this fuss about an old quarto, bound
1533 III | a u~l o l w r b~o u , n G e~v w m d r n~e e y e a !~ “
1534 I | brick and half wood, with a gable cut into steps; it looked
1535 X | scientific mission of MM. Gaimard and Robert on the French
1536 VII | what have you done with my gaiters?”~I stood thunderstruck.
1537 III | How can I tell? Did not Galileo do the same by Saturn? We
1538 XLIV | there by the topmast of a gallant ship appearing above the
1539 XXVIII | vast chamber, with endless galleries. Yours must lead into it,
1540 VII | whistling, darted off at a gallop on the road to Altona.~
1541 XI | look likely to frighten his game, nor did he seem as if he
1542 VIII | under the orders of the gangers, we arrived at the Vor Frelsers
1543 XX | of beings, amongst others ganoid fishes and some of those
1544 XXXII | It is of the order of ganoids, of the family of the cephalaspidae;
1545 XVI | hundred feet in diameter. They gaped before us right in our path.
1546 II | soup, an omelette of ham garnished with spiced sorrel, a fillet
1547 XXXVIII| antiquity. My uncle, usually so garrulous, was struck dumb likewise.
1548 XIII | according to Icelandic gastronomy, much preferable to fresh
1549 VIII | the Phoenix Hotel in Breda Gate. This took half an hour,
1550 XI | generally known as a pressure gauge. — TRANS.~[2] Ruhmkorff’
1551 XXXVIII| Teutobochus, the invader of Gaul, dug out of a sandpit in
1552 XXXVI | the instruments. He was gay and full of spirits; he
1553 XXXIV | Then, seizing his glass, he gazes attentively for a minute,
1554 XXXIX | inhabitants!~My uncle was gazing with intense and eager interest.~“
1555 I | retinasphaltic resins, gehlenites, Fassaites, molybdenites,
1556 XXXIX | this subterranean world; no generation of men dwells in those inferior
1557 XLII | us each in turn, and this generous beverage cheered us up slightly.~“
1558 XI | by Boissonnas, jun., of Geneva, accurately set to the meridian
1559 XVIII | way. It seemed as if the genii of the depths were lighting
1560 XXIV | towards the south-east, a much gentler slope, one of about forty-five
1561 XXI | Poor boy!” said he, in genuine tones of compassion.~I was
1562 XII | but 16,000 inhabitants. Geographers have divided it into four
1563 XLV | member of all the scientific, geographical, and mineralogical societies
1564 XXXIX | of this shepherd of the geologic period.~We stood petrified
1565 XXX | like umbrellas, with exact geometrical outlines. The currents of
1566 XIV | nature had done her work geometrically, with square and compass
1567 XLIV | mein Knablein? Sage mir geschwind!”~(“What is this mountain
1568 XI | by my uncle’s incessant gesticulations. A negative was expressed
1569 XIV | length of time, one soon gets into the ways and manners
1570 XXXII | eddies of steam; white and ghastly mists wrap round the shifting
1571 IX | mind I expected to see the ghost of Hamlet wandering on the
1572 IX | doubts.”~But there was no ghostly shape upon the ancient walls.
1573 XVII | in his tranquil voice:~“Gif akt! ”~“Attention!” repeated
1574 XXIII | becomes endowed with the gift of divers tongues. I did
1575 XXXVIII| He could get no further.~“Giganteo —”~It was not to be done.
1576 XXX | knew that the Lycopodon giganteum attains, according to Bulliard,
1577 XXXVIII| would have been a laugh.~“Gigantosteologie,” at last the Professor
1578 XV | sun, at his lowest point, gilding with his pale rays the island
1579 VII | true.”~Ah! women and young girls, how incomprehensible are
1580 XXX | Pliocene, just before the glacial epoch, and therefore could
1581 Pre | prompt them to bestow will be gladly added to the Mansion-House
1582 XXIII | movement of despair.~Hans glanced at me with, I thought, a
1583 XXXIV | still bathed in the bright glare of the electric light. It
1584 XL | journey, without the most glaring incredulity.~Whilst these
1585 XXXV | iron tools they too emit gleams and flashes of lurid light.
1586 XXXII | Vegetation becomes accelerated. I glide like a shade amongst arborescent
1587 XXXV | Here it comes, there it glides, now it is up the ragged
1588 XXX | down to the common basin, gliding down the gentle slopes with
1589 XXIX | yet certain mysterious glimpses of light came from without
1590 V | affirmative gesture.~His eyes glistened and sparkled with live fire,
1591 XII | concentrating the vague light, glittered upon the slopes of the distant
1592 XVIII | these crystals are just like globes of light.”~“Ali, you think
1593 XXXII | endless foods of those vast globular volumes of vaporous mists,
1594 XXXV | voluted cumulus clouds lower gloomily and threateningly; they
1595 X | Just so!”~“One of the glories of Icelandic literature
1596 XXXV | the vaporous mass soon glows with incandescent heat;
1597 II | nineteenth century.~[Runic glyphs occur here]~The Professor
1598 XXXVII | dislocation of strata.~[1] The glyptodon and armadillo are mammalian;
1599 XXXVII | coverings of those gigantic glyptodons or armadilloes of the pleiocene
1600 XVI | hence be considered as the gnomon of a vast sun dial, the
1601 I | living contents were his god-daughter Gräuben, a young Virlandaise
1602 II | answering equally pleasing to gods and kings, and which has
1603 XXXVIII| presence of this stupendous Golgotha. Any one may now understand
1604 III | Elbe, and after having bid good-bye to the swan, sailing gracefully
1605 IX | The first man we saw was a good-looking fellow enough, in a general’
1606 IX | could converse at all.~This good-natured gentleman made over to us
1607 XLII | wretched remnant of our goodly store.~But now we were mounting
1608 XIII | without taxing too much the goodness of these folks, I would
1609 IX | Rejkiavik coal, household goods, earthenware, woollen clothing,
1610 XIV | all with a minister of the Gospel. To be sure, it was a week-day;
1611 XIX | the majestic arcades of a gothic cathedral. Here the architects
1612 VIII | steamboat companies and the governments which allowed such intolerable
1613 IX | expressionless, and they wore gowns and petticoats of dark ‘
1614 XI | centigrade thermometer, graduated up to 150 degrees (302 degrees
1615 II | protected from the least grain of dust; and metals, from
1616 XI | supply of tobacco, coarse grained powder, and amadou, nor
1617 II | of an infinite variety of grammatical combinations and verbal
1618 XXXI | over our heads, and the Grampians are raising their rugged
1619 VI | Liedenbrock, putting on one of his grandest airs. “Neither you nor anybody
1620 XLIV | to our lips, and eating grapes by mouthfuls off the rich,
1621 II | preferred dusting these graphites, anthracites, coals, lignites,
1622 VII | cords, torches, flasks, grappling irons, alpenstocks, pickaxes,
1623 II | velvet easy-chair, and was grasping between his hands a book
1624 XX | existed. There were tall grasses, ferns, lycopods, besides
1625 XX | came and neither wish was gratified.~On Friday, after a night
1626 X | growing mouldy behind an iron grating, should be worn out under
1627 XXX | the laws of attraction and gravitation. Probably there were subsidences
1628 XIV | Babylon or the wonders of Greece.~I had heard of the Giant’
1629 XLII | each. The Professor ate his greedily, with a kind of feverish
1630 XXX | Xenophon’s ten thousand Greeks, after their long retreat,
1631 XLIV | coming into that delightful greenery, and I was suffering greatly
1632 XIII | if he had never seen us, greeted us with the word “Sællvertu,“
1633 VIII | Professor Liedenbrock a cordial greeting, and he even vouchsafed
1634 VIII | general rule one savant greets another with coolness. But
1635 XX | clothed the walls, some of a greyish agate fantastically veined
1636 XXXV | and appears to watch with grim satisfaction this awful
1637 X | looked like a diabolical grin.~[1] Recherche was sent
1638 XL | here are recent fissures grooving and channelling the granite
1639 XXXVII | Liedenbrock was a rather grotesque fierce parody upon the fierce
1640 XXXVIII| loose grey soil of certain grottoes in France, Switzerland,
1641 XXVIII | explained on scientific grounds. It arose from the concave
1642 III | vowels and the consonants are grouped together in equal disorder;
1643 XXXIX | long, flexible trunks were grouting and turning up the soil
1644 XXXIX | in the thick and tangled growth of his unkempt hair. It
1645 XXXII | his enormous hinder paws, grubs in the soil, awaking the
1646 VIII | house, and moving about and grumbling, at last ten o’clock came.~
1647 XXX | as this.~If the grotto of Guachara, in Colombia, visited by
1648 XXVI | I thought, have not I a guarantee that I shall not lose my
1649 XXIII | excitement. I hardly dared guess what the hunter was about
1650 XLII | It might have been, as I guessed, about ten at night. The
1651 XVIII | receive their terrestrial guests.~“It is magnificent!” I
1652 XII | arrived at the burgh of Gufunes, called Aolkirkja, or principal
1653 XXIV | it to a friendly genius guiding us underground, and caressed
1654 XIV | opened, for we must not be guilty of imprudence.”~“No, indeed!”
1655 XLIV | ourselves in the humble guise of shipwrecked mariners.
1656 XLI | which I concluded that the gully was widening. It was no
1657 XIII | swallowed to the very last gulp of a thick broth made from
1658 XI | considerable quantity of gun cotton, which is unaffected
1659 XL | to hold fifty pounds of guncotton, whose expansive force is
1660 VIII | spire rocking with every gust of wind; my knees began
1661 XXXV | reservoir of fearful windy gusts and rushing storms.~I am
1662 Pre | assistance of Mr. Cameron of H. M. Geological Survey, has
1663 XXVI | have cleared alone.~But his habit of silence gained upon him
1664 XIV | immediately a tall and ugly hag appeared from the hut. She
1665 XII | expedition, and don’t let us haggle about the chances.”~This
1666 XV | flew about in a perfect hail as in an eruption. Happily
1667 XXXV | with incandescent heat; hailstones rattle fiercely down, and
1668 XIII | head, the skin shining and hairless, and repulsive sores visible
1669 XXX | and bristling with rough hairs like those of the cactus.~“
1670 XXVI | in the fainter tones of a half-convinced man. Besides, to associate
1671 III | he could distinguish some half-effaced letters. My uncle at once
1672 XXXI | To my great surprise a half-finished raft was already lying on
1673 I | mineralogy there are many half-Greek and half-Latin terms, very
1674 XIX | No doubt, for the last half-hour the inclines have gone the
1675 I | are many half-Greek and half-Latin terms, very hard to articulate,
1676 XLI | Four! Three!”~My pulse beat half-seconds.~“Two! One! Down, granite
1677 III | My comment on this was a half-suppressed “Oh!”~“Nor you either, Axel,”
1678 XLIV | and myself were sitting half-way down a mountain baked under
1679 IX | but compared with the town hall of Hamburg, a palace in
1680 XXXIV | further. I will cut the halliards if necessary! I am in open
1681 III | my own dear Gräuben!”~ “Hallo!” cried the Professor.~Yes,
1682 XXXIX | terrestrial botany.~Suddenly I halted. I drew back my uncle.~The
1683 XVII | holding with the hand both halves of the rope, which would
1684 II | parsley soup, an omelette of ham garnished with spiced sorrel,
1685 XI | me, two for the baggage. Hams, as was his custom, would
1686 VIII | other end of the street handed us the key, and the ascent
1687 VI | maps of Iceland, that of Handersen, and I believe this will
1688 XXXVIII| bearing the traces of his handiwork, such as fossil leg-bones
1689 IX | around their heads a coloured handkerchief, crowned with a peak of
1690 XXII | peruse with our own eyes and handle with our own hands.~Through
1691 I | his too great ardour in handling it; but still he united
1692 II | Königstrasse, even with a handsome additional room, which would
1693 XI | current, supplied a safe and handy portable light [2]~The arms
1694 X | the hands of the common hangman.”~“Very good! Excellent!”
1695 XXXV | not a breath of wind, and hangs like a sheet of lead. The
1696 XIX | going to Lubeck by way of Hanover!”~I had better have kept
1697 XLV | of savants, and I was the happiest of men; for my pretty Virlandaise,
1698 XIV | thought, above all others, harassed and alarmed me; it was one
1699 XLII | mind, but which was fast hardening into certainty. I tried
1700 XXXVII | have been opposing a will harder than the granite rock.~Hans
1701 I | fracture, its appearance, its hardness, its fusibility, its sonorousness,
1702 XLV | phenomenon is an unbearable hardship. Well! it was yet reserved
1703 XII | ill-mounted on our small but hardy animals.~Iceland is one
1704 VIII | visiting Iceland out of harmless curiosity.~M. Thomsen placed
1705 XXXIV | which is not at all in harmony with Professor Liedenbrock’
1706 | hast
1707 XXX | clump of petrified cedars.~I hastened forward. I could not give
1708 XI | her mate, the young are hatched, and next year the harvest
1709 XI | three iron-tipped sticks, a hatchet, a hammer, a dozen wedges
1710 XXXIII | we had some difficulty in hauling up our plummet.~But when
1711 XIII | deserted building worthy to be haunted by all the elfins of Scandinavia.
1712 XIII | Sometimes we could see a hawk balancing himself on his
1713 IX | is carefully mown in the hay season; if it were not,
1714 XI | them. Whatever objections I hazarded as to their quality, temperature,
1715 I | found time to fling his hazel stick into a corner, his
1716 XXX | sharply defined against the hazy distant horizon.~It was
1717 XV | We walked in single file, headed by the hunter, who ascended
1718 VIII | carefully folded, bore the heading of the Danish consulate
1719 XXXVI | he.~I followed him to a headland, after he had given his
1720 XXIX | the secret, and they have healed marvellously. Our hunter
1721 XXXVII | five hundred leagues upon a heap of rotten planks, with a
1722 III | tales at which she laughed heartilv. Then we reached the banks
1723 XLIV | counted out to him with a hearty shaking of hands all round.~
1724 XVIII | difference depends upon the heat-conducting power of the rocks. Moreover,
1725 XVI | almost within the port.~But Heaven never sends unmixed grief,
1726 XXVII | earthly help I had recourse to heavenly succour. The remembrance
1727 XII | breakers emerging in the heavens.~Often these chains of barren
1728 XVII | slippery steps shook under the heavier form of Hans, he said in
1729 XIV | Cave in Staffa, one of the Hebrides; but I had never yet seen
1730 XLIII | destined to be thrown up out of Hecla, or by which of the seven
1731 II | enthusiasm, “this work is the Heims Kringla of Snorre Turlleson,
1732 XLIV | him in good German:~“Was heiszt diesen Berg, mein Knablein?
1733 XVI | It seemed as if one of Helbesmer’s raised maps lay at my
1734 VII | little trip to Lübeck or Heligoland. Her little hands moved
1735 XLIV | fire-devils vomited out of hell; so we presented ourselves
1736 XL | was at work I was actively helping my uncle to prepare a slow
1737 XXVIII | depths amidst which I lay helpless. Was it an explosion of
1738 IX | as well as the tower of Helsingborg, built on the Swedish coast,
1739 XXXI | pole as in the northern hemisphere, on the contrary, rises
1740 XI | more complete than that of Hendersen. It was the map of M. Olaf
1741 XXXIX | soft carpet of moss and hepaticas luxuriously clothed the
1742 XX | There were but few trees. Herbaceous plants alone existed. There
1743 XLIV | STROMBOLI,” replied the little herdboy, slipping out of Hans’ hands,
1744 XXXIX | The shepherd of gigantic herds, and huger still himself.”~
1745 | hereafter
1746 XIII | it is not contagious, but hereditary, and lepers are forbidden
1747 X | Saknussemm was persecuted for heresy, and in 1573 his books were
1748 X | Icelandic, reminded me of the heroes of old. It was evident that
1749 VI | I.~“Certainly; who would hesitate to acquire such renown?
1750 XIII | and pike, called Alfa and Heta, we were obliged to spend
1751 II | morning, in rummaging in old Hevelius’s shop, the Jew.”~“Magnificent!”
1752 XV | cooling had formed into hexagonal prisms. Everywhere around
1753 XIII | desert became wider and more hideous; yet from time to time we
1754 XXXII | toothed), a gigantic tapir, hides behind the rocks to dispute
1755 III | interest would he have in thus hiding so marvellous a discovery?”~“
1756 XXXI | examining the map, “the Highlands of Scotland are over our
1757 XVI | light down the crater. Every hillock, every rock and stone, every
1758 I | street door creaked upon its hinges; heavy feet made the whole
1759 XVI | of the learned Icelander hinted at in the cryptogram, pointed
1760 IV | burst in upon me; these hints alone gave me the first
1761 XXXII | rhinoceros, camel, and hippopotamus. The colossal mastodon (
1762 XIV | our arrival at Stapi. Hans hired the services of three Icelanders
1763 XXIII | his hand, when a sudden hissing was heard, and a jet of
1764 XXXIII | we were near capsizing. Hissings of prodigious force are
1765 VI | Snæfell is one of these. Since historic times there has been but
1766 XIII | building the house, of course hit his head several times against
1767 XXVII | tried to speak aloud, but hoarse sounds alone passed my dry
1768 XXIV | tumble before us with a hoarser murmur, and we went down
1769 V | avdas, and quod and quem, hod and ken. (Tr.)~“Well?”~“
1770 XXXIX | diffusion of light. We were like Hoffmann’s shadowless man.~After
1771 XXXV | mastodon. (Trans.)~The mast yet holds firm. The sail stretches
1772 XLII | he had found a flask of Hollands; he offered it to us each
1773 XX | the hand of man had not hollowed out this mine; the vaults
1774 XXIV | the echoes of the vaulted hollows of the earth.~On Thursday,
1775 XXXIV | menacing object, he says:~“Holm.”~“An island!” cries my
1776 I | name of Liedenbrock was honourably mentioned in colleges and
1777 X | strangers think themselves honoured in becoming members of it.
1778 XIV | fear, nor did she do the honours at all too gracefully.~The
1779 XXXII | At noon Hans prepared a hook at the end of a line. He
1780 IX | offices in the language of Horace, and I felt that we were
1781 XII | brute!” cried the unhorsed horseman, suddenly degraded into
1782 X | men who came in the Reine Hortense, have added materially to
1783 XXXIX | similar to those we grow in hothouses. But a remarkable feature
1784 XVI | and the little company housed themselves as best they
1785 II | At that moment our good housekeeper Martha opened the study
1786 XIII | is called in the country ‘hraun’; the writhen surface presented
1787 XXXV | lower, and assume an olive hue. The electric light can
1788 Pre | neighbours”? And whatever their humane feelings may prompt them
1789 XXX | enough for the march of the humblest of satellites.~Then I remembered
1790 XLV | the more famous for his humility.~So much honour could not
1791 XLIV | Spitzbergen, and I was in no humour to give up this notion.~
1792 XVIII | light was here intensified a hundredfold by reflection.~The only
1793 XXV | sixteen leagues are the hundredth part of the earth’s radius.
1794 XXXVI | we have no guns we cannot hunt, that’s all.”~“Yes, but
1795 XV | taciturn as their comrade the hunted, never spoke, and ate their
1796 XIV | and manners of fishermen, hunters, and farriers, and other
1797 XIV | livelihood; but after fishing, hunting, and shoeing horses for
1798 XVIII | huntsman, replied:~“Der huppe!”~“Up there.”~And so it
1799 XXXIII | fifty yards of the raft, and hurl themselves the one upon
1800 XLIV | uncle. I was not seriously hurt, but I was shaken and bruised
1801 XXXV | lately roaring winds are hushed into a dead calm; nature
1802 XIV | ugly hag appeared from the hut. She must have been six
1803 XXIII | Water!” repeated my uncle. “Hvar?” he asked, in Icelandic.~“
1804 XI | mayor of Rejkiavik, and Dr. Hyaltalin, the first medical man of
1805 XX | odour of protocarburet of hydrogen. I immediately recognised
1806 XXIV | instead of sliding along the hypothenuse as we were now doing, he
1807 III | ieaabs~ccrmi eevtVl frAntv~dt,iac oseibo KediiI~ [Redactor:
1808 XXXII | found in the ‘drift’ of iceclad Siberia. Farther on, the
1809 III | following:~ mmessvnkaSenrA.icefdoK.segnittamvrtn~ecertserrette,
1810 V | went off rambling into the ideal world of combinations; he
1811 XXXVIII| and which was at the time identified as that of Polyphemus; and
1812 XXXII | these fossil fishes have no identity with any living species.
1813 II | original, in the magnificent idiomatic vernacular, which is both
1814 XXVI | solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of
1815 IV | with a painting on it of an idle-looking naiad; then I amused myself
1816 III | nvaect rrilSa~Atsaar .nvcrc ieaabs~ccrmi eevtVl frAntv~dt,iac
1817 VI | the peculiar property of igniting at the mere contact with
1818 II | CHAPTER II.~A MYSTERY TO BE SOLVED
1819 III | CHAPTER III.~THE RUNIC WRITING EXERCISES
1820 XIV | bowels of the island, if that ill-advised Saknussemm has told a true
1821 XLIV | but a poor boy, miserably ill-clad, a sufferer from poverty,
1822 XIX | silence was nothing but ill-humour.~Still I had courageously
1823 XII | myself, looking not so very ill-mounted on our small but hardy animals.~
1824 V | speak.~Yet I was not an ill-natured fellow. Why was I dumb at
1825 II | or, at any rate, of being illegible.~“Well, now; don’t you see
1826 XXXIX | CHAPTER XXXIX.~FOREST SCENERY ILLUMINATED BY ELETRICITY~For another
1827 XXX | nobler body of light. No; the illuminating power of this light, its
1828 XVIII | kindle and form a sudden illumination as we passed on our way.
1829 XXII | clock this brilliant fete of illuminations underwent a sensible abatement
1830 XXXVIII| this angle, and which is illustrated in the negro countenance
1831 II | I replied, with a good imitation of enthusiasm.~What was
1832 XXXIX | Immanis pecoris custos, immanior ipse. [1]~[1] “The shepherd
1833 XXXIX | countless herd of mastodons.~Immanis pecoris custos, immanior
1834 II | old document, enclosed an immemorial time within the folds of
1835 XXXII | strange birds restored by the immortal Cuvier again flap their ‘
1836 XXXIV | surprise, but his eye is immovably steady.~“He sees something,”
1837 XXII | terrestrial systems. We were immured within prison walls of granite.~
1838 XI | which he listened to the impassioned flow of words which fell
1839 XXXII | barriers strong enough to impede the course of a ship. But
1840 VIII | packages, his voluminous impedimenta, were unloaded, removed,
1841 XIV | done, and estimated their imperfect hospitality at the highest
1842 XLV | by the French Messageries Imperiales, and in three days more
1843 II | to give way to all the impetuosity of his character, and I
1844 II | Look there, and wonder, impious young man, and admire these
1845 XXXV | threateningly; they wear that implacable look which I have sometimes
1846 XXVII | me, and I knelt in prayer imploring for the Divine help of which
1847 XXXII | volatilised. Sublimed into imponderable vapour, I mingle and am
1848 VI | to tell of the rage and imprecations of my uncle before the empty
1849 IX | Then recommending me, by an impressive gesture, to keep silence,
1850 XXXIII | those are the marks of teeth imprinted upon the metal! The jaws
1851 XXX | conceived that after an imprisonment of forty seven days in a
1852 XXXI | and when launched this improvised vessel floated easily upon
1853 XIV | we must not be guilty of imprudence.”~“No, indeed!” I replied
1854 XXXIV | come so far to be prudent.~Imprudently, therefore, we pursue our
1855 XXX | words of human tongue are inadequate to describe the discoveries
1856 XXXV | sea? Yes, we are borne at incalculable speed. We have been carried
1857 XV | exist in a state of liquid incandescence was absurd; and nothing
1858 XVIII | Hunger and fatigue made me incapable of reasoning. A descent
1859 XVIII | We have not gone a single inch yet into the bowels of the
1860 XVIII | angles of deviation and inclination on the road, but he kept
1861 XVII | Of course, we were not included under that head.~“Hans,”
1862 XII | trappean and volcanic class, including trachyte, basalt, and tuffs
1863 XVI | gesticulating, and uttering incoherent expressions. Hans and his
1864 XLI | sheaf of arrows hurled with inconceivable force; I cannot convey my
1865 XIX | gone a hundred paces before incontestable proofs presented themselves.
1866 XXXVIII| quaternary period seemed to be incontestably proved and admitted.~It
1867 XI | his calling without any inconvenient exertion. He was a farmer
1868 XXXVIII| and the shells which are incrusted about it. But I do not possess
1869 I | chemistry, a science which was indebted to him for considerable
1870 XXVII | without hope but without indecision, like a man who has made
1871 XXXV | unrolling before him to an indefinite extent. He can only spare
1872 VI | innumerable fiords that indent those sea-beaten shores,
1873 VII | free to speak and to act independently, and free to —”~The dear
1874 XXX | these remains, formed of indestructible phosphates of lime, and
1875 X | Saknussemm, put into the Index Expurgatorius, and compelled
1876 XLIV | cried, “on the coasts of India, in the Malay Islands, or
1877 XI | waterproof with a composition of indiarubber and naphtha, were packed
1878 XVIII | the dark gallery, and was indicated by the compass.~“Now, Axel,”
1879 XXXV | refer to the thermometer; it indicates . . . (the figure is obliterated).~
1880 XIV | from thermal springs, and indicating by their motion the volcanic
1881 XXXVIII| has since spread from the Indies to the Atlantic. Don’t smile,
1882 XXIV | of Snæfell, I should have indignantly declined.~Most fortunately,
1883 V | have rejected them with indignation; I even went so far as to
1884 XI | according to him, was one indispensable part of the engagement.~
1885 XI | and self-possession, not indolence but tranquillity. It was
1886 XLIII | believe we are,” said the indomitable Professor with an air of
1887 XXII | weighty motive could have induced so quiet a man to forfeit
1888 VI | uncle was almost merry; he indulged in some of those learned
1889 Pre | gifted with the means of indulging in the luxury of extended
1890 XIX | become accustomed to the indurated lava floor, suddenly rested
1891 XX | will exhaust unless the industrial world will devise a remedy.~
1892 XXIV | uncle, furnished with so industrious a guide as Hans, and accompanied
1893 XXXI | next evening, thanks to the industry and skill of our guide,
1894 XI | and even absence, remained ineffectual.~To complete the exact inventory
1895 XLV | Liedenbrock? Thanks to Martha’s ineradicable tattling, the news that
1896 XX | which nevertheless, are not inexhaustible, and which three centuries
1897 XLIV | to be particular. Oh, the inexpressible pleasure of pressing those
1898 XXXV | those strong birds of the infant world.~We lay there, our
1899 XXXIX | generation of men dwells in those inferior caverns of the globe, unknown
1900 XXI | nothing but gin; but this infernal fluid burned my throat,
1901 XIX | no savages or wild beasts infested these silent depths.~Next
1902 XVII | exercise would go on again ad infinitum.~“Now,” said my uncle, after
1903 XXXVIII| Here my uncle’s unfortunate infirmity met him — that of being
1904 XXI | now relaxed again; and the inflammation of my lips abated somewhat;
1905 XVIII | direction as southeast with inflexible steadiness. This lava stream
1906 XXXIV | He maintained his course inflexibly.~Yet, if at our present
1907 XXIII | reasons which might have influenced this seemingly tranquil
1908 XX | unacquainted with the beneficent influences of the sun, yielded neither
1909 XIII | profoundly before us.~I hasten to inform the reader that this Icelandic
1910 Pre | furnish matter for additional information in a future edition.~The
1911 VI | point as to fuse the most infusible metals?”~As my uncle was
1912 XI | preparations; for all our ingenuity was required to pack every
1913 XI | eyes, set in a large and ingenuous face, seemed to me very
1914 XXXIII | of water in the depths it inhabits. It has been appropriately
1915 XLI | in the air again, which I inhaled with all the force of my
1916 III | the original version the initial letter is an ‘m’ with a
1917 I | Sometimes he might irretrievably injure a specimen by his too great
1918 XXIII | miles underground. It has an inky flavour, which is not at
1919 XII | for the relief of the poor inmates. In this country there were
1920 XIV | fleecing us just as a Swiss innkeeper might have done, and estimated
1921 X | think that our host, in the innocence of his Icelandic soul, was
1922 X | tried hard to put on an innocent little expression of simplicity;
1923 VIII | square in which are two innocent-looking guns, which need not alarm
1924 III | disorder; “pertubata seu inordinata,“ as Euclid has it.”~“Very
1925 IX | therefore under no necessity to inquire the road, which exposes
1926 IX | obliged to put off these inquiries until his arrival, and spent
1927 XL | your own hand. I too will inscribe my name upon this dark granite
1928 XXVIII | How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say.
1929 VIII | of nothing, neither the insignificant king’s palace, nor the pretty
1930 XIII | gracefully declining, she insisted no longer, and I was able
1931 XXIII | huntsman.~No doubt under the inspiration of intense pain everybody
1932 XXXIII | probable rage of the conqueror inspires us with intense fear.~One
1933 IX | contained, and we were soon installed in it with all our luggage,
1934 XLI | he cried.~“Ay.”~“Fire!”~I instantly plunged the end of the fuse
1935 XXXIII | trying to recall the peculiar instincts of the monsters of the preadamite
1936 XXXVIII| Several savants of the French Institute, and amongst them MM. Milne-Edwards
1937 Pre | than that of scientific instruction, that any great degree of
1938 XXXV | as when you stand upon an insulated stool under the action of
1939 XXXVIII| specimen to doubt would be to insult science. There stands the
1940 IV | I was struggling with an insurmountable difficulty; my brain got
1941 VIII | Bjarne, was on board. His intending passenger was so joyful
1942 XIX | and the accumulation of intensely heated vapours in the midst
1943 XXXVII | was guessing at my uncle’s intentions. With a few more pieces
1944 XXIII | slowly to and fro, listening intently. I perceived at once that
1945 IX | when the only medium of intercourse is gesture.~The town extends
1946 XXVIII | which remain unheard in the intermediate space. I remember that a
1947 XIX | Besides there would have been interminable hesitation before this choice
1948 XLIII | present business lies with an intermittent volcano. It gives us time
1949 XXX | CHAPTER XXX.~A NEW MARE INTERNUM~At first I could hardly
1950 XXXVII | I thought it my duty to interpose and attempt to lay some
1951 XXI | strove with him. My uncle interposed.~“Be calm, Axel! you will
1952 XL | paces in, our progress was interrupted by an enormous block just
1953 XXXVII | for ten minutes without interruption; not that the Professor
1954 I | those winding canals which intersect each other in the middle
1955 XIII | the boggy land reappeared, intersected by little lakes. Our route
1956 XVI | I could see deep valleys intersecting each other in every direction,
1957 XIX | We were standing at the intersection of two roads, both dark
1958 XI | last evening was spent in intimate conversation with M. Fridrikssen,
1959 V | delibat~Umbra Scartaris Julii intra calendas descende,~Audax
1960 XXXVIII| Gentlemen, I have the honour to introduce to you a man of the quaternary
1961 XIII | from the ceilings.~We were introduced into our apartment, a large
1962 VIII | we possessed the proper introductions to the Governor of Iceland.~
1963 XIX | We had neither cold nor intrusive visits to fear. Travellers
1964 XVIII | and our lungs will become inured to a denser atmosphere.
1965 XXXVIII| skeleton of Teutobochus, the invader of Gaul, dug out of a sandpit
1966 XXVI | marvellous coolness of Hans were invaluable to us. That unimpassioned
1967 II | in former ages. They were invented, it is said, by Odin himself.
1968 XI | ineffectual.~To complete the exact inventory of all our travelling accompaniments,
1969 VIII | past, and by an optical inversion they seemed stationary,
1970 Pre | imagined in this volume, is invested at the present time with.
1971 XXX | to the philosopher, who investigated it to the depth of 2,500
1972 III | savant. She was fond of investigating abstruse scientific questions.
1973 VII | moment my uncle was solemnly investing Gräuben with the reins of
1974 XXX | the dense and breezy air invigorated me, supplying more oxygen
1975 XIX | resolutely shut.~This was only invincible obstinacy. I could hold
1976 VI | you to preserve the most inviolable secrecy: you understand?
1977 XVII | bottom of the hole was still invisible.~The same manœuvre was repeated
1978 XIII | voice of the host was heard inviting us to the kitchen, the only
1979 IX | turf, and the walls slope inward; they rather resemble roofs
1980 XXXIX | pecoris custos, immanior ipse. [1]~[1] “The shepherd of
1981 IV | words, “rots,” “mutabile,” “ira,” “net,” “atra.”~“Come now,”
1982 XLIV | are we?” asked my uncle irascibly, as if he felt much injured
1983 XIV | the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland, and Fingal’s Cave in Staffa,
1984 XI | a silk ropeladder, three iron-tipped sticks, a hatchet, a hammer,
1985 VII | torches, flasks, grappling irons, alpenstocks, pickaxes,
1986 XXV | but not to talk in that irrational way.”~I could see the awful
1987 XLIII | vapours, was driving us irresistibly forward. But to what numberless
1988 I | reassert. Sometimes he might irretrievably injure a specimen by his
1989 I | closed, a sure sign of an irritable temperament, I think I shall
1990 XLII | t you despair?” I cried irritably.~“No, certainly not,” was
1991 XVI | bounds. It was enough to irritate a meeker man than he; for
1992 XXI | the earth.”~In spite of my irritation I was moved with these words,
1993 II | supplying the answers. “Isn’t it a beauty? Yes; splendid!
1994 XLIV | ears. “Come si noma questa isola?”~“STROMBOLI,” replied the
1995 XXXIX | distant mountains, a few isolated clumps of forest trees in
1996 XXX | presently see some ship issue from it, full sail, and
1997 XXXIV | point; therefore this water issues from an ardent furnace,
1998 XIV | called in Icelandic ‘reykir,’ issuing from thermal springs, and
1999 XLIV | there. The superstitious Italians would have set us down for
2000 XLIV | revel under the azure sky of Italy!~After our delicious repast
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