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Chapter
3001 XXVIII | Good bye, Axel, au revoir!”~. . . .~These were the
3002 III | My Latin memories rose in revolt against the notion that
3003 IV | when, in one of those rapid revolutions, at the moment when the
3004 XIV | air, called in Icelandic ‘reykir,’ issuing from thermal springs,
3005 XL | launched into a somewhat rhapsodical eulogium, of which Arne
3006 XXXII | seemed a compound of horse, rhinoceros, camel, and hippopotamus.
3007 XII | just like the colossus of Rhodes.~“Confounded brute!” cried
3008 I | in the august presence of rhombohedral crystals, retinasphaltic
3009 XXX | subdued and shaded fights were ribbed in by vast walls of granite,
3010 XLI | rocks spun into endless ribbons and bands, so that we seemed
3011 III | northern tongues are much richer in consonants; therefore
3012 XXII | and gold. I thought, what riches are here buried at an unapproachable
3013 XXV | nothing, and you may get rid of even that by quick breathing
3014 XII | endeavours to throw his rider. At last the clever little
3015 XLI | enormous billow, on the ridge of which the unhappy raft
3016 XXXVII | rounded by water action, and ridged up in successive lines.
3017 XIV | the Danish Government a ridiculously small pittance, and they
3018 XII | tourists.~The pleasure of riding on horseback over an unknown
3019 XXXIII | narrowing circles. I took up my rifle. But what could a ball do
3020 XLIV | few vessels of peculiar rig were gently swayed by the
3021 XXXII | want of cordage for the rigging, and everything was well
3022 XXV | must allow me to draw one rigid result therefrom.”~“What
3023 XLII | heat ruled in all their rigour and would reduce the most
3024 XVI | in watching the thousand rills and cascades that came tumbling
3025 XXXVI | remained uninjured after having risked blowing up during the storm.~“
3026 XXXVII | of which is a matter of rivalry and contention between the
3027 XI | the remuneration of three rixdales a week (about twelve shillings),
3028 III | following remarkable result:~ mm.rnlls esrevel seecIde~sgtssmf
3029 XXX | animals to which they belonged roamed on the shores of this subterranean
3030 XXX | of those monsters be now roaming through these gloomy forests,
3031 XI | not take the trouble to rob the nest of this; the female
3032 X | mission of MM. Gaimard and Robert on the French corvette La
3033 XI | rather the trader, comes and robs the nest, and the female
3034 XL | moment be imprisoned on a rockbound, impassable coast.”~“Yes,
3035 VIII | giddy; I felt the spire rocking with every gust of wind;
3036 XXII | quartz to form the proper rocky foundations of the earth,
3037 XIX | 1]The name given by Sir Roderick Murchison to a vast series
3038 XIX | corniced elliptic arches in the romanesque style; and massive pillars
3039 VIII | attraction towards these romantic scenes he was very much
3040 VIII | slept peaceably by the red roofing of the warehouse, by the
3041 X | direct question went to the root of the matter. But after
3042 XI | pickaxes, two spades, a silk ropeladder, three iron-tipped sticks,
3043 VIII | park the toylike chateau of Rosenberg, nor the beautiful renaissance
3044 XXXI | seventy-first degree where Sir James Ross has discovered the magnetic
3045 III | segnittamvrtn~ecertserrette,rotaisadva,ednecsedsadne~lacartniiilvIsiratracSarbmvtabiledmek~
3046 IV | I observed the words, “rots,” “mutabile,” “ira,” “net,” “
3047 XXXVII | hundred leagues upon a heap of rotten planks, with a blanket in
3048 XXXV | condensation of the mists, rouses itself into a whirlwind.
3049 VI | every new theory is soon routed by a newer. Was it not always
3050 XI | with one. Then there was a row of phials containing dextrine,
3051 XII | I found the oars of the rowers rather a slow means of propulsion.
3052 XXXIII | at its vast jaws and its rows of teeth! It is diving down!”~“
3053 III | atrateS saodrrn~emtnaeI nvaect rrilSa~Atsaar .nvcrc ieaabs~ccrmi
3054 XXXIX | leguminose plants, acerineæ, rubiceæ and many other eatable shrubs,
3055 XXV | over our heads are being rudely tossed by the tempest.”~“
3056 XX | the day before. Instead of rudimentary trilobites, I noticed remains
3057 XIX | were very simple; a railway rug each, into which we rolled
3058 XX | themselves down upon their rugs, and found in sleep a solace
3059 XL | the falling keystone of a ruined arch, has slipped down to
3060 XII | beggar by the wayside. These ruinous huts seemed to solicit charity
3061 IV | that, with so absolute a ruler as my uncle, this fate was
3062 V | greatly abstracted.~The ruling thought gave him no rest.
3063 XXVIII | It was like the distant rumble of continuous thunder, and
3064 XXIII | wall, a kind of dull, dead rumbling, like distant thunder. During
3065 XXXIX | eatable shrubs, dear to ruminant animals at every period.
3066 XXXII | Brazil; the merycotherium (ruminating beast), found in the ‘drift’
3067 II | I found his morning, in rummaging in old Hevelius’s shop,
3068 XXXV | itself into a whirlwind. It rushes on from the farthest recesses
3069 XL | of Europe — under Sweden, Russia, Siberia: who knows where? —
3070 I | formed by M. Struve, the Russian ambassador; a most valuable
3071 XXIX | murmuring of waves! That is the rustling noise of wind. Am I quite
3072 XXXIX | And I showed my uncle a rusty dagger which I had just
3073 I | Sir John Franklin, General Sabine, never failed to call upon
3074 VIII | necessary to say the secret was sacredly kept from the excellent
3075 II | this my uncle was going to sacrifice to a bit of old parchment.
3076 XLIV | so glorious, but it was safer.~On my way I could hear
3077 XXXV | I cried. “That will be safest.”~“No, no! Never!” shouted
3078 XII | Axel, that there is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic
3079 XXX | wisdom of philosophers has so sagaciously put together again.”~“It
3080 XXXII | Cuvier again flap their ‘sail-broad vans’ in this dense and
3081 XLV | simple word he left us and sailed for Rejkiavik, which he
3082 IX | Valkyria was a splendid sailer, but on a sailing vessel
3083 I | for it is not two yet. Saint Michael’s clock has only
3084 I | Brewster, Dumas, Milne-Edwards, Saint-Claire-Deville frequently consulted him
3085 VIII | over the other, in the only saloon cabin on board.~At a quarter
3086 IX | population busied in drying, salting, and putting on board codfish,
3087 II | bitumens, resins, organic salts, to be protected from the
3088 VIII | steps the fresh air came to salute my face, and we were on
3089 XIII | but not before Hans had saluted him with the customary “
3090 III | sgtssmf vnteief niedrke~kt,samn atrateS saodrrn~emtnaeI
3091 XIII | and gave us all night long samples of what he could do.~No
3092 XLIV | arrived at the little port of San Vicenzo, where Hans claimed
3093 I | himself in haste into his own sanctum.~But on his rapid way he
3094 XXXVIII| invader of Gaul, dug out of a sandpit in the Dauphiné, in 1613.
3095 V | expenditure of vital power, he sank back exhausted into his
3096 XXXIX | Lartet in the bone cave of Sansau. But this creature surpassed
3097 III | niedrke~kt,samn atrateS saodrrn~emtnaeI nvaect rrilSa~Atsaar .
3098 XVI | appeared the snowy peak of Saris, standing out sharp and
3099 XXX | march of the humblest of satellites.~Then I remembered the theory
3100 III | not Galileo do the same by Saturn? We shall see. I will get
3101 XII | one mile farther on, to Saurboër ‘Annexia,’ a chapel of ease
3102 XXXIII | appropriately called the saurian whale, for it has both the
3103 XX | fishes and some of those sauroids in which palaeontologists
3104 XIII | felt melancholy under this savage aspect of nature, and my
3105 XXIII | them in with tow, we only scalded our hands without succeeding.
3106 X | cried my uncle, to the great scandal of the professor of natural
3107 XIII | haunted by all the elfins of Scandinavia. The ice king certainly
3108 XXXII | took up the telescope and scanned the whole horizon, and found
3109 XXXV | but the music of which scarcely-adds to the din of the battle
3110 XLIV | undressed, in rags, a perfect scarecrow, with his leathern belt
3111 XXXIX | CHAPTER XXXIX.~FOREST SCENERY ILLUMINATED BY ELETRICITY~
3112 XXXIV | not an island!” I cried sceptically.~“It’s nothing else,” shouted
3113 XXI | had to do with, and what schemes was he now revolving in
3114 XXXVIII| would have stood up for Scheuchzer’s pre-adamite man against
3115 IX | stand last of the forty scholars educated at this little
3116 XXX | A brig and two or three schooners might have moored within
3117 XVII | this depth, had lost all scintillation, and which by my computation
3118 XI | chest, containing blunt scissors, splints for broken limbs,
3119 XLIII | rock, showers of ashes and scoria, in the midst of a towering
3120 XLIII | so. The blast of ashes, scorix, and rubbish had ceased
3121 XL | wholly. I forgot the past, I scorned the future. I gave not a
3122 XII | the worst we are going to scramble down an extinct crater.
3123 XIX | He walked, he slid, he scrambled, he tumbled, with a persistency
3124 IV | deciphering an undecipherable scrawl.”~“Oh, my dear! must we
3125 V | a word have loosened the screw of the steel vice that was
3126 XXXII | imagination. I return to the scriptural periods or ages of the world,
3127 IX | which forced the schooner to scud under bare poles, we sighted
3128 VIII | within it a collection of the sculptor’s works, nor in a fine park
3129 XXXVIII| fossil leg-bones of animals, sculptured and carved evidently by
3130 VI | fiords that indent those sea-beaten shores, and stop at the
3131 XI | intelligent; they were of a dreamy sea-blue. Long hair, which would
3132 VIII | a few white sails, like sea-gulls’ wings; and in the misty
3133 II | faded volume, with a ragged seal depending from it?~But for
3134 VII | Thus ended this memorable seance. That conversation threw
3135 XLIV | lay a pretty little white seaport town or village, with a
3136 XLII | the future. By diligent search he had found a flask of
3137 IX | carefully mown in the hay season; if it were not, the horses
3138 XXXII | alone. There are no more seasons; climates are no more; the
3139 XVI | returned in silence to my lava seat in a state of utter speechless
3140 IX | dangerous rocks extend far away seaward. An Icelandic pilot came
3141 XIX | absolute safety and utter seclusion; no savages or wild beasts
3142 VI | preserve the most inviolable secrecy: you understand? There are
3143 XXXI | for we must penetrate all secrets of these newly discovered
3144 XIX | scarcely perceptible, and its sections very unequal. Sometimes
3145 XXX | secondary period, when a sediment of soil had been deposited
3146 III | result:~ mm.rnlls esrevel seecIde~sgtssmf vnteief niedrke~
3147 I | pots outside his window seedling plants of mignonette and
3148 XXXIV | is not there that we must seek for the cause of this phenomenon.
3149 XXIII | might have influenced this seemingly tranquil huntsman. The absurdest
3150 X | geological studies, there on that Seffel — Fessel — what do you call
3151 III | mmessvnkaSenrA.icefdoK.segnittamvrtn~ecertserrette,rotaisadva,
3152 XXXIV | would not satisfy!~Terror seizes upon me. I refuse to go
3153 XVI | move from the spot he had selected; yet he must be asking himself
3154 XXIII | fragments. Not so Hans. Full of self possession, he calmly wore
3155 XIX | refuse to admit, out of self-love as an uncle and a philosopher,
3156 XLI | wished to leave him cool and self-possessed.~At that moment the light
3157 XXI | other hand the instinct of self-preservation prompted me to fly.~The
3158 XVI | a light steam or mist, a semblance of land, which bounded the
3159 XIV | portion of which formed a semi-arch over the sea. At. intervals,
3160 XI | all that was said at this semi-official dinner; but I could not
3161 XXV | globe that weight is most sensibly felt, and that at the centre
3162 XL | and I could not resist the sentiment of enthusiasm with which
3163 XI | quacumque viam dedent fortuna sequamur.”~“Therever fortune clears
3164 III | rather given to gravity and seriousness; but that did not prevent
3165 XXXIII | so violent, and the long serpentine form lies a lifeless log
3166 XXX | whether this or another serves to guide us?”~I thought
3167 X | man would have been very serviceable, but the duties of your
3168 XI | provisions in that: four sets of packages in all.~The
3169 IV | round the room quietly and settle my nerves, and then I returned
3170 XXX | those giants; they formed settlements of domes placed in close
3171 XLIV | leathern belt around him, settling his spectacles upon his
3172 III | in disorder; “pertubata seu inordinata,“ as Euclid has
3173 I | a young Virlandaise of seventeen, Martha, and myself. As
3174 VIII | s palace, nor the pretty seventeenth century bridge, which spans
3175 XXXI | polar regions, about that seventy-first degree where Sir James Ross
3176 III | thirty-two letters, viz., seventy-seven consonants and fifty-five
3177 V | billions, a hundred and seventy-six millions, six hundred and
3178 XIII | was lighted even in the severest cold.~My uncle lost no time
3179 III | mm.rnlls esrevel seecIde~sgtssmf vnteief niedrke~kt,samn
3180 XXX | that all these subdued and shaded fights were ribbed in by
3181 XXXIX | We were like Hoffmann’s shadowless man.~After walking a mile
3182 III | together and turn into the shady avenues by the Alster, and
3183 VI | The Professor bent his shaggy brows, and I feared I had
3184 XIX | the second period, these shales, limestones, and sandstones.
3185 XL | launch not calculated for shallow water. In many places we
3186 XVI | cried the Professor.~And, sharing his astonishment, but I
3187 XXXIII | more voracious than the shark, more fearful in vastness
3188 IX | great shoals of whales and sharks. Soon we came in sight of
3189 XXXVIII| projection of the jaw-bones which sharpens or lessons this angle, and
3190 XXVII | waiting for some rock to shatter my skull against.~I shall
3191 XXXII | of spray, shot out little sheaves of light from the track
3192 XVI | mountains, crested with sheets of snow, reminded one of
3193 VI | third atlas in the second shelf in the large bookcase, series
3194 XV | on the opposite side, and sheltered from all harm. But for the
3195 XLIV | That is the easiest way to shelve the difficulty.”~“Indeed,
3196 IX | between the Orkneys and Shetlands.~Soon the schooner encountered
3197 XII | makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or
3198 XI | rixdales a week (about twelve shillings), but it was an express
3199 XXX | it the pale and uncertain shimmer of the moonbeams, the dim
3200 XXIX | of waves breaking upon a shingly shore, and at times I seemed
3201 XXXIII | plummet.~But when the pick was shipped again, Hans pointed out
3202 VI | ENTERPRISE~At these words a cold shiver ran through me. Yet I controlled
3203 XLIII | quaking walls! look at those shivering rocks. Don’t you feel the
3204 XLIV | seemed to dot the sea like a shoal. To the west distant coasts
3205 XXXIII | armour. Only his long neck shoots up, drops again, coils and
3206 XX | the vaults would have been shored up, and, as it was, they
3207 IV | Altona, gesticulating, making shots with his cane, thrashing
3208 XXII | fast asleep. I wanted to shout, but my voice died upon
3209 XXIV | I cried, awakening by my shouts the echoes of the vaulted
3210 XLIII | with fragments of rock, showers of ashes and scoria, in
3211 XXXVIII| the skill of a dexterous showman.~“You see,” he said, “that
3212 XXXIII | road that Saknussemm has shown us —”~“That is just the
3213 XXIII | elevation. The force of the jet shows that.”~“No doubt,” answered
3214 II | uncle pounced upon this shred with incredible avidity.
3215 XIX | developed in the region of Shropshire, etc., once inhabited by
3216 XLII | reduced to ashes.”~At this he shrugged his shoulders and returned
3217 XIX | sight of my companions. I shuddered at the thought of being
3218 II | my uncle kept opening and shutting the old tome. I really could
3219 XLIV | urchin by the ears. “Come si noma questa isola?”~“STROMBOLI,”
3220 XLIV | and he said:~“Dove noi siamo?”~“Yes, where are we?” I
3221 XXI | crews, disheartened and sick as they were, recognised
3222 IX | Lilliputian table. A few sickly wallflowers were trying
3223 VIII | Danish consulate with the signature of W. Christiensen, consul
3224 XII | again refused by the animal significantly shaking his head. Then followed
3225 XXXVII | and chasms mingled with silex, crystals of quartz, and
3226 XI | pickaxes, two spades, a silk ropeladder, three iron-tipped
3227 XIX | once inhabited by the Silures under Caractacus, or Caradoc. (
3228 XXXII | clouds swept heavily over its silver-grey surface; the glistening
3229 XXXVI | to be managed.”~“In the simplest way possible. When we have
3230 XXX | their long retreat, the simultaneous cry, “Thalatta! thalatta!”
3231 III | her from loving me very sincerely. As for me, I adored her,
3232 XXX | innumerable stars, shining singly or in clusters, I felt that
3233 XII | ground he looked like a six-legged centaur.~“Good horse! good
3234 IV | by twos, threes, fives or sixes, nothing came of it but
3235 XIV | which does not come to sixty marks a year (about £4).
3236 VI | shores, and stop at the sixty-fifth degree of latitude. What
3237 I | fortunately spared.~[1] Sixty-three. (Tr.)~[2] As Sir Humphry
3238 XXXVII | shells of all the forms and sizes which existed in the earliest
3239 IX | of us the beacon on Cape Skagen, where dangerous rocks extend
3240 IX | in the night passed the Skager Rack, skirted Norway by
3241 IX | the schooner doubled the Skaw at the northern point of
3242 XXX | arborescent trees. Here are entire skeletons. And yet I cannot understand
3243 VIII | all fallen down from the skies; a smoke fog seemed to drown
3244 XXXV | a light bound, and just skims the powder magazine. Horrible!
3245 IX | waves, and the Valkyria was skirting the coast by Elsinore. In
3246 XIII | Along with this, we had ‘skye,’ a sort of clotted milk,
3247 XXXIX | tunnel.~There, upon a granite slab, appeared two mysterious
3248 XIV | architrave of horizontal slabs, the overhanging portion
3249 XIX | fatiguing, that I was obliged to slacken my pace.~“Well, Axel?” demanded
3250 XII | easiest places without ever slackening their pace. My uncle was
3251 XXXV | elements of the air need to be slaked with moisture; for innumerable
3252 IV | the noise of the violent slamming of doors.~“Yes,” I replied, “
3253 XIX | the first indication of slate.~“Well?”~“We are at the
3254 XIX | between the non-fossiliferous slaty schists below and the old
3255 XIII | admitting too much light. The sleeping accommodation consisted
3256 XIII | the badstofa, or family sleeping-room, and the visitors’ room,
3257 XXXVIII| Had all those creatures slided through a great fissure
3258 XVII | hand.~When one of these slippery steps shook under the heavier
3259 XLIV | replied the little herdboy, slipping out of Hans’ hands, and
3260 VIII | allowed such intolerable slowness. I was obliged to act chorus
3261 XLIV | lava streams which glided sluggishly by us like fiery serpents.
3262 XVI | went off into an unhappy slumber, fancying I could hear ominous
3263 XXXV | even if our raft should be smashed into shivers!”~The words
3264 XIV | was close, dirty, and evil smelling. But we had to be content.
3265 V | fear lest my uncle should smother me in his first joyful embraces.
3266 XXXIII | raft, crew and all, at one snap of its huge jaws.~Hans wants
3267 XLI | stump of the mast, which had snapped asunder at the first shock
3268 XXXIII | to the Icelander. He by a snapping motion of his jaws conveys
3269 XLIII | amidst a dense fall of ashes. Snorting flames darted their fiery
3270 XXXIII | monsters has a porpoise’s snout, a lizard’s head, a crocodile’
3271 I | no attraction except for snuff, which it seemed to draw
3272 XIX | hope, thought I, that this so-called extinct volcano won’t take
3273 XII | anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never
3274 VI | metals, such as potassium and sodium, which have the peculiar
3275 XII | built either of wood, or of sods, or of pieces of lava, looking
3276 V | fell off at the end of the sofa, while uncle Liedenbrock
3277 XXXII | disappear; granite rocks soften; intense heat converts solid
3278 XXI | excitable Professor in a softened mood. I grasped his trembling
3279 XXX | the gentle slopes with a softer murmur.~Amongst these streams
3280 XX | rugs, and found in sleep a solace for their fatigue. But I
3281 XII | officer degraded to a foot soldier.~“Färja,“ said the guide,
3282 XIX | rolled ourselves, was our sole covering. We had neither
3283 VII | that moment my uncle was solemnly investing Gräuben with the
3284 XII | These ruinous huts seemed to solicit charity from passers-by;
3285 III | head; but my uncle went on soliloquising.~“There’s nothing easier.
3286 XXVIII | conducted me through those vast solitudes to the point where, alone
3287 VI | and I believe this will solve the worst of our difficulties.”~
3288 II | CHAPTER II.~A MYSTERY TO BE SOLVED AT ANY PRICE~That study
3289 XXXVIII| not possess that valuable solvent. Yet, such as it is, the
3290 V | regarded this heroic method of solving the difficulty.~But time
3291 XXII | assumed a crystallised though sombre appearance; mica was more
3292 XXXVIII| Abbeville, in the department of Somme, found a human jawbone fourteen
3293 XXXIX | subterranean regions, a new son of Neptune, watching this
3294 XXXII | in the soil, awaking the sonorous echoes of the granite rocks
3295 I | hardness, its fusibility, its sonorousness, its smell, and its taste.~
3296 XIII | hairless, and repulsive sores visible through the gaps
3297 II | ham garnished with spiced sorrel, a fillet of veal with compote
3298 IV | classify: so I set to work; I sorted, labelled, and arranged
3299 IX | replied Captain Bjarne; “a sou’-easter. We shall pass down
3300 IV | What does it all mean?”~I sought to group the letters so
3301 XI | plank-bed, where I slept soundly all night.~When I awoke
3302 XIII | dried fish, hung meat, and sour milk, of which my nose made
3303 XVIII | supply from subterranean sources, but hitherto we had met
3304 XVIII | frequently, gave our direction as southeast with inflexible steadiness.
3305 IX | Cape Portland, the most southerly point of Iceland.~The passage
3306 XI | was not obliged either to sow or reap his harvest, but
3307 XXIII | good for us as going to the Spa, or to Töplitz.”~“Well,
3308 XXX | of the shining firmament, spangled with its innumerable stars,
3309 XXX | an ocean.~The vault that spanned the space above, the sky,
3310 XXII | lamellated structure by the sparkle of the white shining mica.~
3311 IX | of a kitchen garden, the sparse vegetables of which (potatoes,
3312 XXXVIII| to have been found by the Spartans, and of the body of Asterius,
3313 IX | their lips; sometimes by a spasmodic and involuntary contraction
3314 XLIII | fill the quivering air and spatter the blood-stained ground.~
3315 I | much to be deplored in a speaker. The fact is, that during
3316 XXXVII | assembled together for his special satisfaction. Fancy an enthusiastic
3317 XIII | distance of one of these spectres, and I was filled with loathing
3318 VI | enter into the legion of speculation, I can discuss the matter
3319 V | laid hold of my arm, and speechlessly questioned me with his eyes.
3320 VI | moment I felt a ray of hope, speedily to be extinguished. For
3321 XXXIV | am right.” Are we, then, speeding forward to some cataract
3322 IV | dictated to me, so it might be spelt out with ease. All those
3323 XXX | desired and feared.~After spending an hour in the contemplation
3324 XIII | customary “Sællvertu.”~“Spetelsk,“ said he.~“A leper!” my
3325 XXXII | conifers; I lie in the shade of sphenophylla (wedge-leaved), asterophylla (
3326 XXX | the earth to a vast hollow sphere, in the interior of which
3327 XX | brood within the body of the spheroid. Its action was felt to
3328 II | omelette of ham garnished with spiced sorrel, a fillet of veal
3329 XI | a dozen wedges and iron spikes, and a long knotted rope.
3330 III | the furniture rattle, and spilt some ink, and my pen dropped
3331 VIII | wound around the spire, the spirals circling up into the sky.~“
3332 XLIII | expelled, tossed up, vomited, spit out high into the air, along
3333 X | meantime,” said my uncle rather spitefully, “strangers —”~“Well, what
3334 XXXV | Hans still at his helm and spitting fire under the action of
3335 XXXIII | you tread on. The water is splashed for a long way around. The
3336 XXXII | mast was made of two poles spliced together, a yard was made
3337 XI | containing blunt scissors, splints for broken limbs, a piece
3338 XX | crimson or yellow dashed with splotches of red; then came dark cherry-coloured
3339 XLI | fuse into the lantern. It spluttered and flamed, and I ran at
3340 XI | therefore lays her eggs in the spoils of her mate, the young are
3341 XVIII | is magnificent!” I cried spontaneously. “My uncle, what a sight!
3342 XIX | his old age to begin his sports again!~I abstained from
3343 V | feverish fingers, the red spots on his cheeks, revealed
3344 XXIII | plunging my hands into the spouting torrent, I withdrew them
3345 I | in spring sent its young sprays through the window panes.~
3346 IV | penetrate! . . .~“Ah!” I cried, springing up. “But no! no! My uncle
3347 XII | uncle would not wait. He spurred on to the edge. His steed
3348 XXX | the beach with their sharp spurs, formed capes and promontories,
3349 XXXIV | a quantity of water, and spurt it up so continuously?~At
3350 XXIII | heard, and a jet of water spurted out with violence against
3351 XLIII | walls, which crackled and sputtered under the intense heat.~“
3352 XIII | was constructed of roughly squared timbers, with rooms on both
3353 VIII | opened my eyes. I saw houses squashed flat as if they had all
3354 VIII | so joyful that he almost squeezed his hands till they ached.
3355 XXXIX | ease an enormous bough, a staff worthy of this shepherd
3356 XIV | Ireland, and Fingal’s Cave in Staffa, one of the Hebrides; but
3357 III | title-page, he noticed a sort of stain which looked like an ink
3358 XXXVIII| hatchets and flint arrow-heads stained and encased by lapse of
3359 I | often came to a complete standstill; he fought with wilful words
3360 XVII | vast telescope.~It was a star which, seen from this depth,
3361 XXXII | wedge-leaved), asterophylla (star-leaved), and lycopods, a hundred
3362 XXXVIII| against a rock. It seemed to stare at us out of its empty orbits.
3363 XXXII | my uncle breaks in.~My staring eyes are fixed vacantly
3364 XLIII | best thing! Was my uncle stark mad? What did the man mean?
3365 XXXVIII| length, this desiccated mummy startled us by appearing just as
3366 XXXVIII| enough not to contradict this startling assertion.~“If I could only
3367 XLIV | are about. Besides, I am starving, and parching with thirst.”~
3368 XLV | principal cities in the United States!~But there was one ‘dead
3369 VIII | optical inversion they seemed stationary, while the steeple, the
3370 XVI | made ready to receive a statue of Pluto. He stood like
3371 XXV | conversations. I remained a steadfast adherent of the opinions
3372 XVIII | southeast with inflexible steadiness. This lava stream deviated
3373 VIII | railway directors and the steamboat companies and the governments
3374 XII | was to the swift and sure steamers on the Elbe, I found the
3375 XII | spurred on to the edge. His steed lowered his head to examine
3376 XI | farewell. Then we bestrode our steeds and with his last adieu
3377 XVI | difficulties of the descent, down steeps unknown to the guide, the
3378 XL | with our sail set, Hans steered us along the coast to Cape
3379 XXX | with cylindrical forked stems, terminated by long leaves,
3380 XVII | cried.~“Where?” said I, stepping near to him.~“At the bottom
3381 XXXV | and to be sinking into the stillness of death. On the mast already
3382 V | About noon hunger began to stimulate me severely. Martha had,
3383 XV | by the eruptions, called ‘sting’ by the Icelanders. If this
3384 XXXVII | will not yield. I will not stir a single foot backwards,
3385 XII | even the satisfaction of stirring up his beast with whip or
3386 XXXV | of elemental strife.~Hans stirs not. His long hair blown
3387 XXV | Liedenbrock, and I envied the stolid indifference of Hans, who,
3388 XXXV | stand upon an insulated stool under the action of an electrical
3389 XXVI | wash would do me good. I stooped to bathe my face in the
3390 XLIII | asked, shaken by this sudden stoppage as if by a shock.~“It is
3391 XX | contemplating the mineral wealth stored up in this portion of the
3392 XX | eyes behold these virgin stores, such they will be when
3393 VI | have heard the legendary stories told in his day about that
3394 IV | disturbing the contemplative storks in their peaceful solitude.~
3395 XXXVIII| tell us its own wonderful story.”~Here the Professor laid
3396 XVI | arms outstretched and legs straddling wide apart, erect before
3397 XXV | bodies could resist the strain, we should be stopped, and
3398 VIII | by the green banks of the strait, through the deep shades
3399 XXXII | The eastern and western strands spread wide as if to bid
3400 XXII | succeeded gneiss, partially stratified, remarkable for the parallelism
3401 XXXIV | till it reaches the lowest stratum of the clouds. It stands
3402 XI | Thither our ready footsteps stray.”~
3403 XLIII | marked 150°. The perspiration streamed from my body. But for the
3404 XV | could see lengthened screes streaming down the sides of the mountain
3405 XXX | lapped by the waves, and strewn with the small shells which
3406 III | admitted that this was a strictly logical conclusion.~“I am
3407 I | uncle walked by mathematical strides of a yard and a half, and
3408 XXVIII | myself revolving in air, striking and rebounding against the
3409 XI | down left. When she has stripped herself bare the male takes
3410 XX | travelling and travellers at one stroke.~This excursion through
3411 XXIII | succession of light and skilful strokes, working through an aperture
3412 XLV | little as they please.~The Stromboliotes received us kindly as shipwrecked
3413 XVII | volcanic formations affords the strongest confirmation to the theories
3414 XLIV | archipelago, in the ancient Strongyle, where Æolus kept the winds
3415 XXI | to oblige him to rise. I strove with him. My uncle interposed.~“
3416 XIX | narrow channels between low structures which looked like beaver’
3417 XXIV | magnificent plans which struggled for mastery within me. If
3418 I | mineralogy formed by M. Struve, the Russian ambassador;
3419 I | left ear of a Tugendbund student; its lines wanted accuracy;
3420 I | advantage was taken of it; the students laid wait for him in dangerous
3421 XXIII | fragments of granite, and stuffed them in with tow, we only
3422 I | places, and when he began to stumble, loud was the laughter,
3423 XXX | clusters, I felt that all these subdued and shaded fights were ribbed
3424 XXXVII | Perhaps even this water, subjected to the fierce action of
3425 I | German philosophy calls it, ‘subjective’; it was to benefit himself,
3426 XXXII | subtilised, volatilised. Sublimed into imponderable vapour,
3427 XXXI | draw here as it does in sublunary regions.”~“We will try,
3428 IV | ENEMY TO BE STARVED INTO SUBMISSION~“He is gone!” cried Martha,
3429 XXX | gravitation. Probably there were subsidences of the outer crust, when
3430 Pre | dependent for the means of subsistence. For a long time to come
3431 XXVII | still running through the substance of the earth’s thick crust,
3432 XVI | hard, the shelter not very substantial, and our position an anxious
3433 VI | which we will in each case substitute the Fahrenheit measurement. (
3434 XXXII | into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised. Sublimed into
3435 XXVII | altogether. It is still subtle and diffusive, but whatever
3436 VIII | DESCENT~Altona, which is but a suburb of Hamburg, is the terminus
3437 XLII | always a philosopher when he succeeds in remaining cool, and assuredly
3438 I | undecided turn of mind to argue successfully with so irascible a person
3439 XXVII | had recourse to heavenly succour. The remembrance of my childhood,
3440 XII | south-west quarter, called the ‘Sudvester Fjordungr.’~On leaving Rejkiavik
3441 XXXVI | his life.~Not that we had suffered no losses. For instance,
3442 XLIV | boy, miserably ill-clad, a sufferer from poverty, and our aspect
3443 XLIII | ascent we should have been suffocated.~But the Professor gave
3444 IX | youths would have died of suffocation the very first night.~In
3445 XXXVIII| which we scarcely dared to suggest. Had all those creatures
3446 III | apply the process I have suggested to the document in question.”~
3447 XXXV | mask of electric sparks suggests to me, even in this dizzy
3448 VI | question,” I answered rather sullenly. “This is my decision,”
3449 XLIII | cried.~“Well, those are only sulphureous flames and vapours, which
3450 XXXVIII| wash it in a solution of sulphuric acid,” pursued my uncle, “
3451 VIII | The captain disposed of us summarily.~At Kiel, as elsewhere,
3452 IX | answers the purpose of a sumptuous lodge for the doorkeeper
3453 XLV | appearance of Hans, and sundry pieces of intelligence derived
3454 XL | iron-pointed sticks. Often the sunken rocks just beneath the surface
3455 IX | trying to enjoy the air and sunshine.~About the middle of the
3456 XX | Supper time is come; let us sup.”~Hans prepared some food.
3457 XXV | any of those terrestrial superfluities which are necessaries of
3458 III | letter is an ‘m’ with a superscore over it. It is my supposition
3459 XVI | creation of Scandinavian superstitions. I felt intoxicated with
3460 XLIV | tell how we came there. The superstitious Italians would have set
3461 XX | that out for certain when supper-time came. And, to our sorrow,
3462 XI | this native were lithe and supple; but he made little use
3463 XXXVII | no use for me to entreat, supplicate, get angry, or do anything
3464 XLI | I stared at our failing supplies stupidly. I refused to take
3465 XXX | general effect was sad, supremely melancholy. Instead of the
3466 XXXV | is evidently charged and surcharged with electricity. My whole
3467 XII | is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false
3468 XXX | ceaseless action of the surf. Farther on the eye discerned
3469 IX | admire these shattered and surf-beaten coasts.~Forty-eight hours
3470 XVIII | up. The thousand shining surfaces of lava on the walls received
3471 XV | absurd; and nothing could surpass the absurdity of fancying
3472 XXXIV | steam vents, no hot springs surround it, and all the volcanic
3473 XVIII | light enough to distinguish surrounding objects.~“Well, Axel, what
3474 XLIV | passed beyond these green surroundings it rested on a wide, blue
3475 XXXII | forgotten everything that surrounds me. The Professor, the guide,
3476 XXXI | which science has scarcely suspected.”~“Science, my lad, has
3477 XXII | terror I felt ashamed of suspecting a man of such extraordinary
3478 XIV | things; when the latter, suspending his labours for a moment,
3479 XLIV | hair and beards, we were a suspicious-looking party; and if the people
3480 XLV | of the central fire, he sustained with his pen and by his
3481 XXIII | had the satisfaction of swallowing our first draught.~Could
3482 XIII | children, all, big and little, swarming in the midst of the dense
3483 XXXIII | his nature has resumed its sway. And yet, what cause was
3484 XLIV | peculiar rig were gently swayed by the softly swelling waves.
3485 XXI | the water that we want, I swear to you we will return to
3486 IX | Helsingborg, built on the Swedish coast, and the schooner
3487 XXX | spray. Thence my eye could sweep every part of the bay; within
3488 XLIV | we were thus enjoying the sweets of repose a child appeared
3489 IX | encountered the great Atlantic swell; she had to tack against
3490 XII | Accustomed as I was to the swift and sure steamers on the
3491 XXXII | great force and impelled us swiftly on.~In an hour my uncle
3492 XIV | were fleecing us just as a Swiss innkeeper might have done,
3493 XXXVIII| certain grottoes in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, as well as
3494 XXXV | I recover from a long swoon. The storm continues to
3495 XLI | of famine, when death was swooping down upon us in a multitude
3496 XV | period belong the felspar, syenites, and porphyries.~But with
3497 XVI | live the life of elves and sylphs, the fanciful creation of
3498 VII | would work upon Gräuben’s sympathies and change her mind.~“Ah!
3499 XXVIII | among the quarries near Syracuse, the most wonderful of which
3500 IV | third line was the word “tabiled”, which looked like Hebrew,
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