A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

THE "Voyages Extraordinaires" of M. Jules Verne deserve to be made widely known in English-speaking countries by means of carefully prepared translations. Witty and ingenious adaptations of the researches and discoveries of modern science to the popular taste, which demands that these should be presented to ordinary readers in the lighter form of cleverly mingled

young Virlandaise of seventeen, Martha, and myself. As his nephew and an orphan, I became his laboratory assistant.

ventured to point out

indulging in the luxury of extended beneficence

the disastrous eruptions last Easter Day

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"Greenland?" cried I in reply.

"Yes," continued my uncle, who always when explaining anything

scarcely had time to move

What is darkness to you is light to me.

It was impossible to dispute the dictatorial commands of my uncle. I yielded with a groan. On payment of a fee, a verger gave us the key. He, for one, was not partial to the ascent