JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 16 BOLDLY DOWN THE CRATER 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 16 BOLDLY DOWN THE CRATER Supper was rapidly devoured and the little company housed themselvesas best they could. The bed was hard the shelter not verysubstantial and our position an anxious one at five thousand feetabove the sea level. Yet I slept particularly well it was one of thebest nights I had ever had and I did not even dream. Next morning we awoke half frozen by the sharp keen air but with thelight of a splendid sun. I rose from my granite bed and went out toenjoy the magnificent spectacle that lay unrolled before me. I stood on the very summit of the southernmost of Snx i ell s range of the eye extended over the whole island. By an opticallaw which obtains at all great heights the shores seemed raised andthe centre depressed. It seemed as if one of Helbesmer s raised mapslay at my feet. I could see deep valleys intersecting each other inevery direction precipices like low walls lakes reduced to ponds rivers abbreviated into streams. On my right were numberless glaciersand innumerable peaks some plumed with feathery clouds of smoke. Theundulating surface of these endless mountains crested with sheets ofsnow reminded one of a stormy sea. If I looked westward there theocean lay spread out in all its magnificence like a merecontinuation of those flock-like summits. The eye could hardly tellwhere the snowy ridges ended and the foaming waves began. I was thus steeped in the marvellous ecstasy which all high summitsdevelop in the mind and now without giddiness for I was beginningto be accustomed to these sublime aspects of nature. My dazzled eyeswere bathed in the bright flood of the solar rays. I was forgettingwhere and who I was to live the life of elves and sylphs thefanciful creation of Scandinavian superstitions. I felt intoxicatedwith the sublime pleasure of lofty elevations without thinking of theprofound abysses into which I was shortly to be plunged. But I wasbrought back to the realities
