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2001 IV | CHAPTER IV.~THE ENEMY TO BE STARVED
2002 XXXIX | crashing noise of their long ivory tusks boring into the old
2003 IX | CHAPTER IX.~ICELAND! BUT WHAT NEXT?~
2004 III | and with this result:~ Iyloau lolwrb ou,nGe vwmdrn eeyea!~ “
2005 IX | costume consisted of a coarse jacket of black woollen cloth called
2006 XXXI | seventy-first degree where Sir James Ross has discovered the
2007 XVII | upon the surface of a rock jammed in across the chimney from
2008 XXXVIII| the human family is of the Japhetic race, which has since spread
2009 V | he had touched a Leyden jar. His audacity, his joy,
2010 III | Only think that under this jargon there may lie concealed
2011 XXXVIII| is that projection of the jaw-bones which sharpens or lessons
2012 VIII | watched every article with jealous vigilance, until all were
2013 II | old Hevelius’s shop, the Jew.”~“Magnificent!” I replied,
2014 VIII | weapons, its cups and its jewels, was a learned savant, the
2015 V | following terms:~ In Sneffels Joculis craterem quem delibat~Umbra
2016 I | 2] Humboldt, Captain Sir John Franklin, General Sabine,
2017 XIV | a fisherman, a hunter, a joiner, but not at all with a minister
2018 XIX | unlike the woodlouse: then, joining my uncle, I said:~“Look
2019 XLV | it was just an electric joke!”~From that day forth the
2020 VI | the volcanoes are called jokuls, a word which means glacier
2021 XXXV | deepens; scarcely can I jot down a few hurried notes.
2022 XXXV | few which I seem to have jotted down almost unconsciously.
2023 XXXIV | over, and note them in my journal. We have crossed two hundred
2024 XLI | the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance.
2025 Pre | happy in weaving together in judicious combination severe scientific
2026 V | delibat~Umbra Scartaris Julii intra calendas descende,~
2027 X | together to keep himself from jumping up in the air, “that is
2028 XI | chronometer, made by Boissonnas, jun., of Geneva, accurately
2029 XXI | knees, and half dead, at the junction of the two roads. There
2030 XIII | and a liquid prepared from juniper berries; for beverage we
2031 XVII | miocene, eocene, cretaceous, jurassic, triassic, permian, carboniferous,
2032 XXI | they were, recognised the justice of the claim, and he discovered
2033 XVIII | increase of temperature. This justified Davy’s theory, and more
2034 XXXIX | the trunk of a gigantic kauri, stood a human being, the
2035 XXXIX | foliage with New Zealand kauris. It was enough to distract
2036 III | eevtVl frAntv~dt,iac oseibo KediiI~ [Redactor: In the original
2037 XXII | sleep. I was suffering too keenly, and what embittered my
2038 VIII | time.”~I had to obey. A keeper who lived at the other end
2039 XXXIV | terrible struggle. Hans keeps at his post at the helm.
2040 XXX | immense mammoth cave in Kentucky is of gigantic proportions,
2041 XL | block, like the falling keystone of a ruined arch, has slipped
2042 V | flints together; he sent a kick here, a thump there. At
2043 XLIV | and brought him to us, kicking and struggling.~My uncle
2044 XII | answered these arguments with kicks and endeavours to throw
2045 V | discover it, would be to kill Professor Liedenbrock! Let
2046 XXIX | wonderful that you have not been killed a hundred times over. But,
2047 XVIII | roof, seemed as it were to kindle and form a sudden illumination
2048 Pre | whom fall the smiles of a kindlier sun in regions not torn
2049 I | fond of geology and all its kindred sciences; the blood of a
2050 II | equally pleasing to gods and kings, and which has the advantage
2051 XIV | treat me to the Icelandic kiss; but there was no occasion
2052 XVIII | man, such as the mines of Kitz Bahl in Tyrol, and those
2053 XLIV | heiszt diesen Berg, mein Knablein? Sage mir geschwind!”~(“
2054 VII | courage enough to strap my knapsack to my shoulders and start.~
2055 XXXVIII| have heard the tale of the kneepan of Ajax, the pretended body
2056 XXVII | came back to me, and I knelt in prayer imploring for
2057 I | long, thin nose was like a knife blade. Boys have been heard
2058 IX | their braided hair a little knitted brown cap; when married,
2059 XXXVI | said. “I am only a little knocked up, but I shall soon be
2060 XXXVIII| orbits. We sounded with our knuckles his hollow frame.~After
2061 XVIII | night in our little house at Königsberg? No noise of cart wheels,
2062 XII | we had to work round the Kolla fiord, a longer way but
2063 VIII | town.”~We went first to Kongens-nye-Torw, an irregular square in
2064 VIII | the morning we landed at Korsor, a small town on the west
2065 II | this work is the Heims Kringla of Snorre Turlleson, the
2066 XIII | our journey, and we lay at Krösolbt.~On the 19th of June, for
2067 IX | all nations.~The castle of Kronsberg soon disappeared in the
2068 III | sgtssmf vnteief niedrke~kt,samn atrateS saodrrn~emtnaeI
2069 X | Robert on the French corvette La Recherche, [1] and lately
2070 I | an orphan, I became his laboratory assistant.~I freely confess
2071 IX | the volcanoes by their own labour and at their own expense;
2072 III | centre of interest, and he laboured at that blot, until by the
2073 III | rotaisadva,ednecsedsadne~lacartniiilvIsiratracSarbmvtabiledmek~meretarcsilvcoIsleffenSnI.~
2074 XLIII | Certainly there was no lack of craters, and there were
2075 XXX | place of their own in the lacustrine flora? No; when we arrived
2076 XI | was a large load, for the ladder was 300 feet long.~And there
2077 II | enjoying the company of lads of my own age, I had preferred
2078 XIII | reader that this Icelandic lady was the mother of nineteen
2079 XXXV | see the light play of a lambent St. Elmo’s fire; the outstretched
2080 XXII | flakes, revealing their lamellated structure by the sparkle
2081 XXII | parallelism and regularity of its lamina, then mica schists, laid
2082 XI | and compresses, lint, a lancet for bleeding, all dreadful
2083 XL | a place suitable for our landing. I jumped ashore, followed
2084 XV | recognisable form, and thus made landmarks to guide us in our way back.
2085 XIII | less and less attractive landscapes. The last tufts of grass
2086 XXXIX | narrowed. Here the sea came to lap the foot of the steep cliff,
2087 XIII | shoulders, as many on our laps, and the rest between our
2088 V | any harm, cleared out the larder the night before, so that
2089 Pre | is intended to enter more largely than that of scientific
2090 XII | animals.~Iceland is one of the largest islands in Europe. Its surface
2091 XXXIX | like that discovered by Mr. Lartet in the bone cave of Sansau.
2092 XXXIII | coils and uncoils, droops, lashes the waters like a gigantic
2093 XXXVII | stupefaction, then incredulity, lastly a downright burst of rage.
2094 XLIII | of the volcano, but in a lateral gallery where there were
2095 III | amusing tales at which she laughed heartilv. Then we reached
2096 I | to stumble, loud was the laughter, which is not in good taste,
2097 V | like a man exhausted by too lavish an expenditure of vital
2098 XLIV | strangers for two months was lavishing upon us out of his blazing
2099 VIII | and propitious for the laying-down of these direct level lines
2100 XLIV | Hans closed his eyes with lazy indifference. What did it
2101 XLV | shook with his triumphant leap of exultation.~A light broke
2102 XXX | streams. A few light vapours, leaping from rock to rock, denoted
2103 IX | edge of red, and a bit of leather rolled round the foot for
2104 XXXII | Coast thirty leagues to leeward. Nothing in sight before
2105 XXXVIII| handiwork, such as fossil leg-bones of animals, sculptured and
2106 XXXIX | trees, decayed with age, leguminose plants, acerineæ, rubiceæ
2107 I | 1853 there had appeared at Leipzig an imposing folio by Otto
2108 III | fingers.~Then, when our leisure hours came, we used to go
2109 XXXV | uncle.~“Nej!“ repeats Hans, leisurely shaking his head.~But now
2110 XV | scoriae, of which I could see lengthened screes streaming down the
2111 III | spectacles, took up a strong lens, and carefully examined
2112 XIII | Spetelsk,“ said he.~“A leper!” my uncle repeated.~This
2113 XIII | contagious, but hereditary, and lepers are forbidden to marry.~
2114 XXX | fir-trees in northern latitudes; lepidodendra, with cylindrical forked
2115 XIII | The horrible disease of leprosy is too common in Iceland;
2116 XXXVII | collection of scattered leptotheria, mericotheria, lophiodia,
2117 XXXII | first ages of the world, the leptotherium (slender beast), found in
2118 XXVIII | which had roused me from my lethargy.~“No,” I said, “no; it is
2119 IX | potatoes, cabbages, and lettuces), would have figured appropriately
2120 XIII | the next day. Bogs, dead levels, melancholy desert tracks,
2121 V | spring as if he had touched a Leyden jar. His audacity, his joy,
2122 II | the fact that my uncle was liable to occasional fits of bibliomania;
2123 XXXIII | called by the English the lias, have enabled their colossal
2124 X | have? Foreigners have their libraries at home, and the first essential
2125 XIII | out to us a soup made of lichen and by no means unpleasant,
2126 XLIV | gone northward.”~“Has it lied?”~“Surely not. Could it
2127 VI | Augustus Petermann, at Liepzig. Nothing could be more apropos.
2128 XXXIX | plants, growing without the life-giving heat and light of the sun.
2129 XLV | uncle enjoyed during his lifetime the glory he had deservedly
2130 VII | the Copenhagen office, to Liffender & Co., and you would have
2131 XV | volcano would distend and lift up the crust, and then burst
2132 XLII | coats and waistcoats, the. lightest covering became uncomfortable
2133 VIII | dazzling light from some lighthouse threw a bright stream of
2134 XXXV | continues to roar and rage; the lightnings dash hither and thither,
2135 XXXI | variety of brown coal or lignite, found chiefly in Iceland.”~“
2136 II | graphites, anthracites, coals, lignites, and peats! And there were
2137 XV | faster. But, whether he liked it or not, this was a rest
2138 XXX | an English captain, who likened the earth to a vast hollow
2139 XXXIV | resembles, with a most deceiving likeness, an enormous cetacean, whose
2140 III | gracefully amidst the white water lilies, we returned to the quay
2141 IX | figured appropriately upon a Lilliputian table. A few sickly wallflowers
2142 X | M. de Blosseville in the Lilloise which has never been heard
2143 XXX | indestructible phosphates of lime, and without hesitation
2144 XVI | visit till next year.~My limited powers of description would
2145 XVIII | opaque quartz, set with limpid tears of glass, and hanging
2146 IX | skirted Norway by Cape Lindness, and entered the North Sea.~
2147 XX | to a dark and lustreless lining. At one moment, the tunnel
2148 XXXIX | representatives of the conifers. were linked together by a tangled network
2149 XI | bandages and compresses, lint, a lancet for bleeding,
2150 VI | smile flitted across the lip of my severe companion,
2151 XI | is known. In a complete list of philosophical instruments
2152 X | the glories of Icelandic literature and science?”~“That’s the
2153 XI | movements of this native were lithe and supple; but he made
2154 II | inflammable, metallic, and lithoid minerals.~How well I knew
2155 XIII | accommodation consisted of dry litter, thrown into two wooden
2156 XI | Fridrikssen, with whom I felt the liveliest sympathy; then, after the
2157 XIV | necessity to work for their livelihood; but after fishing, hunting,
2158 XXXVI | shook hands with him with a lively gratitude. This man, with
2159 XI | instrument maker, Chadburn, of Liverpool, that an aneroid can be
2160 IV | the huge armchair.~“Now I’ll read it,” I cried, after
2161 XVI | into a mortar, perhaps a loaded mortar, to be shot up into
2162 VIII | succession of uninteresting loamy and fertile flats, a very
2163 XIII | spectres, and I was filled with loathing at the sight of a huge deformed
2164 XXXV | figure; for the end of each lock of loose flowing hair is
2165 X | uncle, who was frantically locking his legs together to keep
2166 XLIII | volcanic. The manner of our locomotion left no doubt in my mind.
2167 IX | the purpose of a sumptuous lodge for the doorkeeper of the
2168 XXI | and instinct agrees with logic to support my conviction.
2169 III | that this was a strictly logical conclusion.~“I am therefore
2170 IV | tackled me again with this logomachy, which might vainly have
2171 III | with this result:~ Iyloau lolwrb ou,nGe vwmdrn eeyea!~ “Excellent!”
2172 XXVIII | the dome of St. Paul’s in London, and especially in the midst
2173 XXXVIII| crust of the earth. The long-continued cooling of the globe produced
2174 IX | coasts of the island.~The longest of the only two streets
2175 XXXIII | My uncle notices it, and looks on approvingly.~Already
2176 XXXVII | leptotheria, mericotheria, lophiodia, anoplotheria, megatheria,
2177 XXXII | Farther on, the pachydermatous lophiodon (crested toothed), a gigantic
2178 XXXVI | that we had suffered no losses. For instance, our firearms;
2179 XXXV | and rushing storms.~I am loth to believe these atmospheric
2180 XVII | will divide them into three lots; each of us will strap one
2181 XXIII | outside. I could hear a louder noise of flowing waters,
2182 III | did not prevent her from loving me very sincerely. As for
2183 XII | on to the edge. His steed lowered his head to examine the
2184 XXX | to recognise. They were lowly shrubs of earth, here attaining
2185 XIX | people of Hamburg going to Lubeck by way of Hanover!”~I had
2186 XXXVIII| gentlemen, the analysis made at Lucerne in 1577 of those huge bones
2187 VIII | Iceland. But there was no such luck. A small Danish schooner,
2188 XIII | therefore one upon another. The luckiest had only two urchins upon
2189 III | I to myself; “then it is lucky I have eaten two dinners
2190 IV | line appeared the word “luco”, which means a sacred wood.
2191 VII | starting for a little trip to Lübeck or Heligoland. Her little
2192 XL | I thought him singularly lukewarm.~“At least,” I said, “don’
2193 XXX | subterranean world. When the wind lulled, a deeper silence than that
2194 XXXV | aggravated. The wind never lulls but to acquire increased
2195 III | resumed, “Avicenna, Bacon, Lully, Paracelsus, were the real
2196 VIII | was afflicted with severe lumbago.~“To-morrow we will do it
2197 VI | like the ocean, to the lunar attraction, and therefore
2198 XXXIV | here are we scudding like lunatics before the wind, to get
2199 XLIV | vines, covered with their luscious purple bunches.~I was forced
2200 XXX | down a ray of unspeakable lustre. But it was not solar light,
2201 XX | giving way to a dark and lustreless lining. At one moment, the
2202 Pre | means of indulging in the luxury of extended beneficence,
2203 XIX | impressions of fucoids and lycopodites.~Professor Liedenbrock could
2204 XXX | attaining gigantic size; lycopodiums, a hundred feet high; the
2205 XXX | climate. I knew that the Lycopodon giganteum attains, according
2206 XXXV | we are running with such maddening speed. But before it has
2207 XVII | feet.~I don’t suppose the maddest geologist under such circumstances
2208 III | labelled them together. Mademoiselle Gräuben was an accomplished
2209 XXXVII | and we should be fools and madmen to attempt to cross a second
2210 XXXV | and just skims the powder magazine. Horrible! we shall be blown
2211 XXXV | another. If all the powder magazines in the world were to explode
2212 IX | was not a general but a magistrate, the Governor of the island,
2213 XLV | reversed the poles of our magnet!”~“Aha! aha!” shouted the
2214 XLII | non-conducting rocks, electricity and magnetism, had tempered the laws of
2215 IX | petticoats of dark ‘vadmel’; as maidens, they wore over their braided
2216 Pre | hopes in the course of a mail or two to receive a communication
2217 VII | manifestly impossible to maintain the struggle against destiny.
2218 XIX | succeeding each other like the majestic arcades of a gothic cathedral.
2219 XI | a first-rate instrument maker, Chadburn, of Liverpool,
2220 VII | philosophical instrument makers and the electricians kept
2221 XLV | He was seized with the mal de pays, a complaint for
2222 XLIV | coasts of India, in the Malay Islands, or in Oceania.
2223 VIII | portfolio. I bestowed a malediction upon it, and then proceeded
2224 XVI | pieces of lava. I felt a malicious pleasure in watching the
2225 XXXVI | to know how that is to be managed.”~“In the simplest way possible.
2226 XXXIX | hair. It most resembled the mane of the primitive elephant.
2227 XV | precaution of our guide, our mangled bodies, torn and pounded
2228 VII | lose the train.”~It was now manifestly impossible to maintain the
2229 XVII | still invisible.~The same manœuvre was repeated with the cord,
2230 XVII | an exact account of our manœuvres with the rope, which I knew
2231 Pre | will be gladly added to the Mansion-House Iceland Relief Fund.~In
2232 XX | from the side walls. The marble, the schist, the limestone,
2233 XX | to an end.~But still we marched on, and I alone was forgetting
2234 XV | diagonal and the counter marches, must have measured at least
2235 XXX | CHAPTER XXX.~A NEW MARE INTERNUM~At first I could
2236 XXXII | unsteady feet the coloured marls and the particoloured clays;
2237 XIII | lepers are forbidden to marry.~These apparitions were
2238 XLV | three days more we were at Marseilles, having no care on our minds
2239 XXXIX | which were found in the marshes of Ohio in 1801. I saw those
2240 IX | extends along a low and marshy level, between two hills.
2241 XXIX | secret, and they have healed marvellously. Our hunter is a splendid
2242 XXXIX | burning curiosity. What other marvels did this cavern contain?
2243 XXXV | radiations. This frightful mask of electric sparks suggests
2244 XLII | Hans quietly, moderately, masticating his small mouthfuls without
2245 XI | eggs in the spoils of her mate, the young are hatched,
2246 XV | quantities, and the liquid material oozing out from the abysses
2247 I | that my uncle walked by mathematical strides of a yard and a
2248 III | premeditated; it has arisen mathematically in obedience to the unknown
2249 XXIV | head. And yet it really mattered very little whether it was
2250 XXXVIII| farther stages. Other similar maxillaries, though belonging to individuals
2251 XXVII | through the inextricable maze, still descending, still
2252 XIX | thought of being lost in the mazes of this vast subterranean
2253 IX | But then these roofs are meadows of comparative fertility.
2254 XIII | off the rocks and a few meagre sea weeds, and the next
2255 | meanwhile
2256 VI | substitute the Fahrenheit measurement. (Tr.)~“What is that reason?”
2257 XXXIX | surpassed in stature all the measurements known in modern palæontology.
2258 XI | Dr. Hyaltalin, the first medical man of the place, being
2259 V | all out.~I was therefore meditating a proper introduction to
2260 VI | Professor in the tone of a meek disciple. “Oh! unpleasant
2261 XVI | was enough to irritate a meeker man than he; for it was
2262 XIV | The priest and his tall Megæra were awaiting us at the
2263 XXXVII | lophiodia, anoplotheria, megatheria, mastodons, protopithecæ,
2264 XLIV | Was heiszt diesen Berg, mein Knablein? Sage mir geschwind!”~(“
2265 XXXVII | limits of the horizon, and melted in the distance in a faint
2266 XXXV | blinding splendour and the melting heat, it drops at my feet,
2267 X | themselves honoured in becoming members of it. It publishes books
2268 XXXVIII| Cassanion, and all those memoirs, pamphlets, answers, and
2269 VII | COURAGE~Thus ended this memorable seance. That conversation
2270 III | up in my chair. My Latin memories rose in revolt against the
2271 XXXV | believe these atmospheric menaces, and yet I cannot help muttering:~“
2272 XXXIV | pointing with his finger at the menacing object, he says:~“Holm.”~“
2273 V | weariness of spirit, the mental wrestlings he must have
2274 IV | Iceland there should be mention of a sea of ice; but it
2275 IV | the purely French words “mer”, “arc”, “mere.” ”~All this
2276 IX | the beach. Here live the merchants and traders, in wooden cabins
2277 XI | descent to a point which the mercurial barometer [1] would not
2278 XVIII | barometer.”~In fact, the mercury, which had risen in the
2279 XXXIX | bowels of the earth, at the mercy of its wild inhabitants!~
2280 III | lacartniiilvIsiratracSarbmvtabiledmek~meretarcsilvcoIsleffenSnI.~ I confess I felt considerably
2281 XXXVII | of scattered leptotheria, mericotheria, lophiodia, anoplotheria,
2282 XI | Geneva, accurately set to the meridian of Hamburg.~4. Two compasses,
2283 XXXII | the caverns of Brazil; the merycotherium (ruminating beast), found
2284 XI | in England, fell in long meshes upon his broad shoulders.
2285 XXXIX | some protopitheca, or some mesopitheca, some early or middle ape
2286 XLV | employed by the French Messageries Imperiales, and in three
2287 VII | amidst a crowd of porters and messengers who were all depositing
2288 XLV | a small craft took us to Messina, where a few days’ rest
2289 XXXVIII| certainty of the fact — Messrs. Falconer, Busk, Carpenter,
2290 II | divided into inflammable, metallic, and lithoid minerals.~How
2291 XV | hurled along by some unknown meteor.~Yet Hans did not think
2292 VII | notice and went on her way as methodically as ever.~Finally the last
2293 XXXVIII| that of the cemetery St. Michel, at Bordeaux, preserved
2294 III | until by the help of his microscope he ended by making out the
2295 XV | already reduced by distance to microscopic dimensions.~At seven we
2296 XXV | Therefore we are under mid-Atlantic?”~“To be sure we are.”~“
2297 XVI | bottom of the abyss.~At mid-day we arrived. I raised my
2298 XIX | little Gräuben again.~By midday there was a change in the
2299 I | window seedling plants of mignonette and convolvulus, he would
2300 VI | other.~“Axel,” said he very mildly; “you are a very ingenious
2301 IX | whose appearance was as military, and disposition and office
2302 V | hundred and seventy-six millions, six hundred and forty thousand
2303 XLV | corner for six months, little mindful of the trouble it was giving.~
2304 XXXI | other northern coniferae, mineralised by the action of the sea.
2305 XX | underwent a process of complete mineralization.~Thus were formed those
2306 XXII | the granite.~Never had mineralogists found themselves in so marvellous
2307 XL | my uncle.~By midnight our mining preparations were over;
2308 XIV | joiner, but not at all with a minister of the Gospel. To be sure,
2309 XVII | computation should be 46; Ursa minor. Then I fell fast asleep.~
2310 VIII | travelling bag with the minutest care. I saw that he had
2311 XVII | head about them. Pliocene, miocene, eocene, cretaceous, jurassic,
2312 XLIV | Berg, mein Knablein? Sage mir geschwind!”~(“What is this
2313 XIII | fire, which also burnt such miscellaneous fuel as briars, cow-dung,
2314 I | Otto Liedenbrock had no mischief in him, I willingly allow
2315 I | filings. But this was merely a mischievous report; it had no attraction
2316 I | a word, he was a learned miser.~Germany has not a few professors
2317 VII | Come, Axel, come, you miserable wretch,” my uncle cried
2318 XLIV | It was but a poor boy, miserably ill-clad, a sufferer from
2319 I | professors of this sort.~To his misfortune, my uncle was not gifted
2320 XII | was effected without any mishap.~In another half hour we
2321 XLV | deceitful compass, which we had mislaid somewhere and could not
2322 VI | parchment is intended to mislead?”~I almost regretted having
2323 XIII | approach us and offer his misshapen hand. He fled away, but
2324 XXVI | ascend still. Unless, indeed, missing me, and supposing me to
2325 X | of Troïl the scientific mission of MM. Gaimard and Robert
2326 IX | road, which exposes one to mistakes when the only medium of
2327 XXXVI | Professor with a good deal of mistrust. I asked, was he not touched
2328 XXXIX | the sun. Everything seemed mixed-up and confounded in one uniform
2329 IX | the schooner, under her mizen, brigantine, topsail, and
2330 III | dictated me the following:~ mmessvnkaSenrA.icefdoK.segnittamvrtn~ecertserrette,
2331 IV | returned to the kitchen, moaning piteously.~When I was alone,
2332 XLII | eyes, and in the dismal moanings which from time to time
2333 XXI | few bits of biscuit. Long moans escaped from my swollen
2334 XXXII | now to begin to adopt a mode of travelling both more
2335 XXXIV | prefer the more ordinary modes of horizontal progression.~
2336 II | combinations and verbal modifications.”~“Like German.” I happily
2337 XXI | slender sip of water came to moisten my burning mouth. It was
2338 XXI | looked at me. His eyes were moistened.~Then I saw him take the
2339 XXX | I said. “These are the molar teeth of the deinotherium;
2340 XXIV | CHAPTER XXIV.~WELL SAID, OLD MOLE! CANST THOU WORK I’ THE
2341 XXXV | evolution from their component molecules; the gaseous elements of
2342 XXII | no chance of ever being molested by the pickaxe or the spade.~
2343 I | gehlenites, Fassaites, molybdenites, tungstates of manganese,
2344 XLIV | appellet-on cette montagne, mon enfant?”~Silence still.~“
2345 XI | gold, silver, and paper money. Six pairs of boots and
2346 XXXII | protopitheca — the first monkey that appeared on the globe —
2347 XXXIX | nothing again amidst this monotonous scene.~“Evidently,” said
2348 XXIV | degrees.~Then the road became monotonously easy. It could not be otherwise,
2349 VIII | time to get tired of the monotony; for in three hours we stopped
2350 XLIV | Comment appellet-on cette montagne, mon enfant?”~Silence still.~“
2351 VI | it heaved up into little monticules, it became oxydized and
2352 VII | end of June —”~“What, you monument of ignorance! do you think
2353 XXX | uncertain shimmer of the moonbeams, the dim reflection of a
2354 IX | conservators of fisheries moor in this bay, but just then
2355 | Moreover
2356 XXXV | Friday, August 21. — On the morrow the magnificent geyser has
2357 II | whole washed down with sweet Moselle.~All this my uncle was going
2358 XIII | to curl myself up in my mossy bed.~At five next morning
2359 IV | fly around me like those motes of mingled light and darkness
2360 XXXVI | the matter?” I asked.~He motioned to me to look. An exclamation
2361 XXXV | sail! the sail!” I cry, motioning to lower it.~“No!” replies
2362 XXII | thoughts. None but some weighty motive could have induced so quiet
2363 XLII | metal is running into the mould. Gradually we had been obliged
2364 XVI | in Runic characters, half mouldered away with lapse of ages,
2365 X | books, instead of growing mouldy behind an iron grating,
2366 XXXIV | we approach, the higher mounts the jet of water. What monster
2367 XLII | but Hans shook his head mournfully.~“What!” cried my uncle. “
2368 IX | perfection. It is carefully mown in the hay season; if it
2369 IX | cemetery, inclosed with a mud wall, and where there seemed
2370 VII | piled up with my uncle’s multifarious preparations.~“Where’s your
2371 XLI | swooping down upon us in a multitude of other forms? Would there
2372 XXXVIII| length, this desiccated mummy startled us by appearing
2373 VIII | s, adorned with horrible mural painting, and containing
2374 XIX | name given by Sir Roderick Murchison to a vast series of fossiliferous
2375 XLIV | left over our heads the murky sky and cold fogs of the
2376 XXIII | looked on me without moving a muscle of his countenance.~The
2377 II | occur here]~The Professor mused a few moments over this
2378 XXXVII | and contention between the museums of great cities. A thousand
2379 IV | observed the words, “rots,” “mutabile,” “ira,” “net,” “atra.”~“
2380 XXXIV | necessary! I am in open mutiny against the Professor, who
2381 XXXV | menaces, and yet I cannot help muttering:~“Here’s some very bad weather
2382 XXXII | unfitted for his support. Then mydream backed even farther still
2383 IX | 8th the captain made out Myganness, the southernmost of these
2384 IX | weather gave us a good view of Myrdals jokul, which overhangs it.
2385 IV | fingers the sheet of paper mysteriously disfigured with the incomprehensible
2386 II | uncle suffering the pangs of mystification. At least, so it seemed
2387 II | invention of the learned to mystify this poor world, I was not
2388 XXIV | my reviving spirits these mythological notions seemed to come unbidden.~
2389 XI | composition of indiarubber and naphtha, were packed amongst the
2390 XXXIX | where the shore was much narrowed. Here the sea came to lap
2391 XXXVI | have only crossed it in its narrowest part. And it is a curious
2392 XXXIII | enormous, and according to naturalists it is armed with no less
2393 III | mother tongue, he would naturally select that which was currently
2394 XXXII | caprice in the midst of this nebulous mass of fourteen hundred
2395 XXV | superfluities which are necessaries of men who live upon the
2396 XXIII | he asked, in Icelandic.~“Nedat,“ replied Hans.~“Where?
2397 XI | Finally, all the articles needful to supply Ruhmkorff’s apparatus.~
2398 I | steel pointer, his magnetic needles, his blowpipe, and his bottle
2399 XXXIII | Icelander. He shakes his head negatively.~“Tva,“ says he.~“What two?
2400 XXXVII | express resignation.~“I must neglect nothing,” he said; “and
2401 IV | degrees making my naiad into a negress. Now and then I listened
2402 XXXVIII| which is illustrated in the negro countenance and in the lowest
2403 IX | faithful worshippers.~On a neighbouring hill I perceived the national
2404 Pre | claim of being counted our “neighbours”? And whatever their humane
2405 XI | morning I was awoke by the neighing and pawing of four horses
2406 XXXIV | the south, saying:~“Dere nere!”~“Down there?” repeated
2407 IX | coast by Elsinore. In my nervous frame of mind I expected
2408 VIII | of the bay within which nestles the little town, exploring
2409 IV | rots,” “mutabile,” “ira,” “net,” “atra.”~“Come now,” I
2410 XXI | am the Columbus of this nether world, and I only ask for
2411 XXXII | continually increases and neutralises that of the sun. Vegetation
2412 XIV | fell from the height of my new-born hopes when my uncle said:~“
2413 XXIV | can be more natural? At Newcastle are there not coal mines
2414 XXXI | penetrate all secrets of these newly discovered regions.”~“But
2415 XLV | civilised languages. The leading newspapers extracted the most interesting
2416 III | result:~ Iyloau lolwrb ou,nGe vwmdrn eeyea!~ “Excellent!”
2417 XXI | clinging to the wall, tried to nibble a few bits of biscuit. Long
2418 XII | of twenty-eight. What a nice little walk!”~He was about
2419 XLV | in the double capacity of niece to my uncle and wife to
2420 III | seecIde~sgtssmf vnteief niedrke~kt,samn atrateS saodrrn~
2421 XIII | CIRCLE~It ought to have been night-time, but under the 65th parallel
2422 XIII | wherever we travelled. By nightfall we had accomplished half
2423 XI | It was the map of M. Olaf Nikolas Olsen, in the proportion
2424 XXXIX | another quarter of an hour our nimble heels had carried us beyond
2425 XXXV | disk of mysterious light nimbly leaps aside; it approaches
2426 II | wonderful expedition of the nineteenth century.~[Runic glyphs occur
2427 | ninety
2428 XXXII | The colossal mastodon (nipple-toothed) twists and untwists his
2429 I | blowpipe, and his bottle of nitric acid, he was a powerful
2430 IV | fancied him running under the noble trees which line the road
2431 XXX | the dim reflection of a nobler body of light. No; the illuminating
2432 XIII | nothing surprising in the nocturnal polar light. In Iceland
2433 XVII | luggage with a satisfied nod, and only rose erect when
2434 XXXV | Let us lower the sail.”~He nods his consent.~Scarcely has
2435 XLIV | uncle; and he said:~“Dove noi siamo?”~“Yes, where are
2436 XXXIV | windward there must be some noisy phenomenon, for now the
2437 XLIV | urchin by the ears. “Come si noma questa isola?”~“STROMBOLI,”
2438 IX | of the bishop and other non-commercial people.~I had soon explored
2439 XLII | particular conditions of non-conducting rocks, electricity and magnetism,
2440 XXV | lined with lavas, which are non-conductors of heat, did not suffer
2441 VII | proposal. The whole thing is non-existent. I have had a bad night,
2442 XIX | which lies between the non-fossiliferous slaty schists below and
2443 XVII | orders, Hans tied all the non-fragile articles in one bundle,
2444 XLI | provisions left.~I searched every nook and corner, every crack
2445 XXXIX | in a tropical region at noonday and the height of summer.
2446 IX | the Skager Rack, skirted Norway by Cape Lindness, and entered
2447 XXXVIII| to the lower line of the nostrils. The greater this angle,
2448 XVIII | from his pocket a small notebook, intended for scientific
2449 XXIV | occasion to be opened.~My uncle noted every hour the indications
2450 XXXIII | are all right. My uncle notices it, and looks on approvingly.~
2451 XXVIII | take it. Pronounce my name, noting exactly the second when
2452 II | irregular declensions of nouns proper like the Latin.”~“
2453 X | language, and we have all the novelties that Copenhagen sends us
2454 III | consisting of consonants only, as nrrlls; others, on the other hand,
2455 III | atrateS saodrrn~emtnaeI nvaect rrilSa~Atsaar .nvcrc ieaabs~
2456 III | emtnaeI nvaect rrilSa~Atsaar .nvcrc ieaabs~ccrmi eevtVl frAntv~
2457 I | round and most unscientific oath: then his fury would gradually
2458 XXI | by the arm. I wished to oblige him to rise. I strove with
2459 XXXV | indicates . . . (the figure is obliterated).~Monday, August 24. — Will
2460 XXV | Yes; according to a rather obscure law. It is well known that
2461 XXXV | their very brevity and their obscurity reveal the intensity of
2462 XV | prospects, I could not help observing with interest the mineralogical
2463 XL | It is only an accidental obstruction, not met by Saknussemm,
2464 XI | stream of electricity. He obtained in 1864 the quinquennial
2465 XVI | By an optical law which obtains at all great heights, the
2466 XVII | very simple expedient to obviate this difficulty. He uncoiled
2467 II | that my uncle was liable to occasional fits of bibliomania; but
2468 XX | explosion of which has often occasioned such dreadful catastrophes.~
2469 XLIV | the Malay Islands, or in Oceania. We have passed through
2470 XXXI | head foremost. But if all oceans are properly speaking but
2471 II | invented, it is said, by Odin himself. Look there, and
2472 IV | been set before ancient Oedipus. And if I did not obey his
2473 XII | as ashamed as a cavalry officer degraded to a foot soldier.~“
2474 IX | came to proffer me his good offices in the language of Horace,
2475 XII | phenomena of eruptions, the offspring of volcanic explosions and
2476 XV | shook his head, saying:~“Ofvanför.”~“It seems we must go higher,”
2477 XXXIX | found in the marshes of Ohio in 1801. I saw those huge
2478 XXIX | rubbed your wounds with some ointment or other of which the Icelanders
2479 XI | Hendersen. It was the map of M. Olaf Nikolas Olsen, in the proportion
2480 X | Liedenbrock; the labours of MM. Olafsen and Povelsen, pursued by
2481 I | considerably changes as he grows older, at the end he will be a
2482 XLIV | we had left the grove of olives, we arrived at the little
2483 XXXVII | Alexandrian library burnt by Omar and restored by a miracle
2484 II | There was parsley soup, an omelette of ham garnished with spiced
2485 XVI | slumber, fancying I could hear ominous noises or feel tremblings
2486 XXXVI | ears as I awoke; he was ominously cheerful.~“Well, my boy,”
2487 XLV | expedition, with only one omission, the unexplained and inexplicable
2488 XV | and the liquid material oozing out from the abysses of
2489 XVI | resembled an inverted cone, the openingof which might be half a league
2490 XLIII | reaction.~How often this operation was repeated I cannot say.
2491 XVII | upon which the chemical operations took place which are produced
2492 XXXVIII| met with a most obstinate opponent in M. Elie de Beaumont.
2493 XXI | despair. I had no spirit to oppose this ill fortune.~As I had
2494 VIII | quarter of Copenhagen.~I was ordered to direct my feet that way;
2495 XXXVIII| Ajax, the pretended body of Orestes claimed to have been found
2496 I | heard to remark that that organ was magnetised and attracted
2497 XXXIII | They possessed a perfect organisation, gigantic proportions, prodigious
2498 XXXII | perfectly and completely organised the farther back their date
2499 XX | impressions of primitive organisms. Creation had evidently
2500 XXXII | tell the species; none had organs of sight. This unhoped-for
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