JULES VERNE THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 62 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JULES VERNE THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 62 An isolated rock thirty feet in length twenty in breadth scarcely ten from the water s edge such was the only solid point which the waves of the Pacific had not engulfed. It was all that remained of the structure of Granite House The wall had fallen headlong and been then shattered to fragments and a few of the rocks of the large room were piled one above another to form this point. All around had disappeared in the abyss the inferior cone of Mount Franklin rent asunder by the explosion the lava jaws of Shark Gulf the plateau of Prospect Heights Safety Islet the granite rocks of Port Balloon the basalts of Dakkar Grotto the long Serpentine Peninsula so distant nevertheless from the center of the eruption. All that could now be seen of Lincoln Island was the narrow rock which now served as a refuge to the six colonists and their dog Top. The animals had also perished in the catastrophe the birds as well as those representing the fauna of the island--all either crushed or drowned and the unfortunate Jup himself had alas found his death in some crevice of the soil. If Cyrus Harding Gideon Spilett Herbert Pencroft Neb and Ayrton had survived it was because assembled under their tent they had been hurled into the sea at the instant when the fragments of the island rained down on every side. When they reached the surface they could only perceive at half a cable s length this mass of rocks towards which they swam and on which they found footing. On this barren rock they had now existed for nine days. A few provisions taken from the magazine of Granite House before the catastrophe a little fresh water from the rain which had fallen in a hollow of the rock was all that the unfortunate colonists possessed. Their last hope the vessel had been shattered to pieces. They had no means of quitting the reef no fire nor any means of obtaining it. It seemed that they must inevitably perish. This day the 18th of March there remained only .
