JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 12 A BARREN LAND 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 12 A BARREN LAND We had started under a sky overcast but calm. There was no fear ofheat none of disastrous rain. It was just the weather for tourists. The pleasure of riding on horseback over an unknown country made meeasy to be pleased at our first start. I threw myself wholly into thepleasure of the trip and enjoyed the feeling of freedom andsatisfied desire. I was beginning to take a real share in theenterprise. Besides I said to myself where s the risk Here we aretravelling all through a most interesting country We are about toclimb a very remarkable mountain at the worst we are going toscramble down an extinct crater. It is evident that Saknussemm didnothing more than this. As for a passage leading to the centre of theglobe it is mere rubbish perfectly impossible Very well then letus get all the good we can out of this expedition and don t let ushaggle about the chances. This reasoning having settled my mind we got out of Rejkiavik. Hans moved steadily on keeping ahead of us at an even smooth andrapid pace. The baggage horses followed him without giving anytrouble. Then came my uncle and myself looking not so veryill-mounted on our small but hardy animals. Iceland is one of the largest islands in Europe. Its surface is14 000 square miles and it contains but 16 000 have divided it into four quarters and we were crossingdiagonally the south-west quarter called the Sudvester Fjordungr. On leaving Rejkiavik Hans took us by the seashore. We passed leanpastures which were trying very hard but in vain to look green yellow came out best. The rugged peaks of the trachyte rockspresented faint outlines on the eastern horizon at times a fewpatches of snow concentrating the vague light glittered upon theslopes of the distant mountains certain peaks boldly uprising passed through the grey clouds and reappeared above the movingmists like breakers emerging in the heavens. Often these chains of .
