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       Chapter III. The Runic Writing Exercises The Professor

       Chapter IV. The Enemy To Be Starved Into Submission

       Chapter V. Famine, Then Victory, Followed By Dismay

       Chapter VI. Exciting Discussions About An Unparalleled Enterprise

       Chapter VII. A Woman’s Courage

       Chapter VIII. Serious Preparations For Vertical Descent

       Chapter IX. Iceland! But What Next?

       Chapter X. Interesting Conversations With Icelandic Savants

       Chapter XI. A Guide Found To The Centre Of The Earth

       Chapter XII. A Barren Land

       Chapter XIII. Hospitality Under The Arctic Circle

       Chapter XIV. But Arctics Can Be Inhospitable, Too

       Chapter XV. Snæfell At Last

       Chapter XVI. Boldly Down The Crater

       Chapter XVII. Vertical Descent

       Chapter XVIII. The Wonders Of Terrestrial Depths

       Chapter XIX. Geological Studies In Situ

       Chapter XX. The First Signs Of Distress

       Chapter XXI. Compassion Fuses The Professor’s Heart

       Chapter XXII. Total Failure Of Water

       Chapter XXIII. Water Discovered

       Chapter XXIV. Well Said, Old Mole! Canst Thou Work I’ The Ground So Fast?

       Chapter XXV. De Profundis

       Chapter XXVI. The Worst Peril Of All

       Chapter XXVII. Lost In The Bowels Of The Earth

       Chapter XXVIII. The Rescue In The Whispering Gallery

       Chapter XXIX. Thalatta! Thalatta!

       Chapter XXX. A New Mare Internum

       Chapter XXXI. Preparations For A Voyage Of Discovery

       Chapter XXXII. Wonders Of The Deep

       Chapter XXXIII. A Battle Of Monsters

       Chapter XXXIV. The Great Geyser

       Chapter XXXV. An Electric Storm

       Chapter XXXVI. Calm Philosophic Discussions

       Chapter XXXVII. The Liedenbrock Museum Of Geology

       Chapter XXXVIII. The Professor In His Chair Again

       Chapter XXXIX. Forest Scenery Illuminated By Eletricity

       Chapter XL. Preparations For Blasting A Passage To The Centre Of The Earth

       Chapter XLI. The Great Explosion And The Rush Down Below

       Chapter XLII. Headlong Speed Upward Through The Horrors Of Darkness

       Chapter XLIII. Shot Out Of A Volcano At Last!

       Chapter XLIV. Sunny Lands In The Blue Mediterranean

       Chapter XLV. All’s Well That Ends Well

      Preface

       Table of Contents

      The “Voyages Extraordinaires” of M. Jules Verne deserve to be made widely known in English-speaking countries by means of carefully prepared translations. Witty and ingenious adaptations of the researches and discoveries of modern science to the popular taste, which demands that these should be presented to ordinary readers in the lighter form of cleverly mingled truth and fiction, these books will assuredly be read with profit and delight, especially by English youth. Certainly no writer before M. Jules Verne has been so happy in weaving together in judicious combination severe scientific truth with a charming exercise of playful imagination.

      Iceland, the starting point of the marvellous underground journey imagined in this volume, is invested at the present time with. a painful interest in consequence of the disastrous eruptions last Easter Day, which covered with lava and ashes the poor and scanty vegetation upon which four thousand persons were partly dependent for the means of subsistence. For a long time to come the natives of that interesting island, who cleave to their desert home with all that amor patriae which is so much more easily understood than explained, will look, and look not in vain, for the help of those on whom fall the smiles of a kindlier sun in regions not torn by earthquakes nor blasted and ravaged by volcanic fires. Will the readers of this little book, who, are gifted with the means of indulging in the luxury of extended beneficence, remember


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