JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 17 VERTICAL DESCENT 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 17 VERTICAL DESCENT Now began our real journey. Hitherto our toil had overcome alldifficulties now difficulties would spring up at every step. I had not yet ventured to look down the bottomless pit into which Iwas about to take a plunge The supreme hour had come. I might noweither share in the enterprise or refuse to move forward. But I wasashamed to recoil in the presence of the hunter. Hans accepted theenterprise with such calmness such indifference such perfectdisregard of any possible danger that I blushed at the idea of beingless brave than he. If I had been alone I might have once more triedthe effect of argument but in the presence of the guide I held mypeace my heart flew back to my sweet Virlandaise and I approachedthe central chimney. I have already mentioned that it was a hundred feet in diameter andthree hundred feet round. I bent over a projecting rock and gazeddown. My hair stood on end with terror. The bewildering feeling ofvacuity laid hold upon me. I felt my centre of gravity shifting itsplace and giddiness mounting into my brain like drunkenness. Thereis nothing more treacherous than this attraction down deep abysses. Iwas just about to drop down when a hand laid hold of me. It was thatof Hans. I suppose I had not taken as many lessons on gulfexploration as I ought to have done in the Frelsers Kirk atCopenhagen. But however short was my examination of this well I had taken someaccount of its conformation. Its almost perpendicular walls werebristling with innumerable projections which would facilitate thedescent. But if there was no want of steps still there was no rope fastened to the edge of the aperture might have helped usdown. But how were we to unfasten it when arrived at the other end My uncle employed a very simple expedient to obviate this uncoiled a cord of the thickness of a finger and four hundredfeet long first he dropped half of it down then he passed it .
