JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 20 THE FIRST SIGNS OF DISTRESS 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 20 THE FIRST SIGNS OF DISTRESS In fact we had to ration ourselves. Our provision of water could notlast more than three days. I found that out for certain whensupper-time came. And to our sorrow we had little reason to expectto find a spring in these transition beds. The whole of the next day the gallery opened before us its endlessarcades. We moved on almost without a word. Hans silence seemed tobe infecting us. The road was now not ascending at least not perceptibly. Sometimes even it seemed to have a slight fall. But this tendency which wasvery trifling could not do anything to reassure the Professor forthere was no change in the beds and the transitional characteristicsbecame more and more decided. The electric light was reflected in sparkling splendour from theschist limestone and old red sandstone of the walls. It might havebeen thought that we were passing through a section of Wales ofwhich an ancient people gave its name to this system. Specimens ofmagnificent marbles clothed the walls some of a greyish agatefantastically veined with white others of rich crimson or yellowdashed with splotches of red then came dark cherrycoloured marblesrelieved by the lighter tints of limestone. The greater part of these bore impressions of primitive organisms. Creation had evidently advanced since the day before. Instead ofrudimentary trilobites I noticed remains of a more perfect order ofbeings amongst others ganoid fishes and some of those sauroids inwhich palaeontologists have discovered the earliest reptile Devonian seas were peopled by animals of these species anddeposited them by thousands in the rocks of the newer formation. It was evident that we were ascending that scale of animal life inwhich man fills the highest place. But Professor Liedenbrock seemednot to notice it. He was awaiting one of two events either the appearance of avertical well opening before his feet down which our descent mightbe .
