JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 15 SNÆFELL AT LAST Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nang cao. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 15 SNYFELL AT LAST Sn fell is 5 000 feet high. Its double cone forms the limit of atrachytic belt which stands out distinctly in the mountain system ofthe island. From our starting point we could see the two peaks boldlyprojected against the dark grey sky I could see an enormous cap ofsnow coming low down upon the giant s brow. We walked in single file headed by the hunter who ascended bynarrow tracks where two could not have gone abreast. There wastherefore no room for conversation. After we had passed the basaltic wall of the fiord of Stapi we passedover a vegetable fibrous peat bog left from the ancient vegetationof this peninsula. The vast quantity of this unworked fuel would besufficient to warm the whole population of Iceland for a century this vast turbary measured in certain ravines had in many places adepth of seventy feet and presented layers of carbonized remains ofvegetation alternating with thinner layers of tufaceous pumice. As a true nephew of the Professor Liedenbrock and in spite of mydismal prospects I could not help observing with interest themineralogical curiosities which lay about me as in a vast museum andI constructed for myself a complete geological account of Iceland. This most curious island has evidently been projected from the bottomof the sea at a comparatively recent date. Possibly it may still besubject to gradual elevation. If this is the case its origin maywell be attributed to subterranean fires. Therefore in this case the theory of Sir Humphry Davy Saknussemm s document and my uncle stheories would all go off in smoke. This hypothesis led me to examinewith more attention the appearance of the surface and I soon arrivedat a conclusion as to the nature of the forces which presided at itsbirth. Iceland which is entirely devoid of alluvial soil is whollycomposed of volcanic tufa that is to say an agglomeration of porousrocks and stones. Before the volcanoes broke out it consisted
