JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 19 THE WONDERS OF TERRESTRIAL DEPTHS 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 19 THE WONDERS OF TERRESTRIAL DEPTHS At eight in the morning a ray of daylight came to wake us up. Thethousand shining surfaces of lava on the walls received it on itspassage and scattered it like a shower of sparks. There was light enough to distinguish surrounding objects. Well Axel what do you say to it cried my uncle rubbing hishands. Did you ever spend a quieter night in our little house atKonigsberg No noise of cart wheels no cries of basket women noboatmen shouting No doubt it is very quiet at the bottom of this well but there issomething alarming in the quietness itself. Now come my uncle cried if you are frightened already what willyou be by and by We have not gone a single inch yet into the bowelsof the earth. What do you mean I mean that we have only reached the level of the island. longvertical tube which terminates at the mouth of the crater has itslower end only at the level of the sea. Are you sure of that Quite sure. Consult the barometer. In fact the mercury which had risen in the instrument as fast as wedescended had stopped at twenty-nine inches. You see said the Professor we have now only the pressure of ouratmosphere and I shall be glad when the aneroid takes the place ofthe barometer. And in truth this instrument would become useless as soon as theweight of the atmosphere should exceed the pressure ascertained atthe level of the sea. But I said is there not reason to fear that this ever-increasingpressure will become at last very painful to bear No we shall descend at a slow rate and our lungs will becomeinured to a denser atmosphere. Aeronauts find the want of air as theyrise to high elevations but we shall perhaps have too much of thetwo this is what I should prefer. Don t let us lose a moment. Whereis the bundle we sent down before us I then remembered that we had searched for it in vain the eveningbefore. My uncle questioned Hans who after having examinedattentively with the eye of a .
