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The crater was being emptied, however, and the water, drunk by the earth, was sinking, and revealing the fearful ruin at the bottom.
Fifty feet below its peak, amid a shower of stones and slag, a wide crater vomited torrents of lava that were dispersed in fiery cascades into the heart of the liquid mass.
As I said, this underwater crater spewed lava, but not flames.
"Yes, its crater, a crater formerly filled with lava, steam, and flames, but which now lets in this life-giving air we're breathing."
"But couldn't someone enter through the mouth of its crater?"
When I burn this combustible to produce sodium, the smoke escaping from the mountain's crater gives it the appearance of a still-active volcano."
The sunshine coming through the crater had grown stronger, shedding a hazy light over all the volcanic waste forever buried in the heart of this extinct mountain.
Above us, the yawning crater looked like the wide mouth of a well.
Traces of lava, slag, and basaltic rock were everywhere, but I couldn't find the crater that had vomited them up.
Which bad Latin may be translated thus:"Descend, bold traveller, into the crater of the jokul of Sneffels, which the shadow of Scartaris touches before the kalends of July, and you will attain the centre of the earth; which I have done, Arne Saknussemm."
It is a mountain five thousand feet high, one of the most remarkable in the world, if its crater leads down to the centre of the earth."
"Impossible?" said the Professor severely; "and why, pray?""Because this crater is evidently filled with lava and burning rocks, and therefore--""But suppose it is an extinct volcano?""Extinct?"
He observed that at the approach of the kalends of July, that is to say in the last days of June, one of the peaks, called Scartaris, flung its shadow down the mouth of that particular crater, and he committed that fact to his document.
That learned philosopher did get to the bottom of Sneffels, he has seen the shadow of Scartaris touch the edge of the crater before the kalends of July; he may even have heard the legendary stories told in his day about that crater reaching to the centre of the world; but as for reaching it himself, as for performing the journey, and returning, if he ever went, I say no--he never, never did that."
He formed a small ball of the metals which I have named, and which was a very fair representation of our globe; whenever he caused a fine dew of rain to fall upon its surface, it heaved up into little monticules, it became oxydized and formed miniature mountains; a crater broke open at one of its summits; the eruption took place, and communicated to the whole of the ball such a heat that it could not be held in the hand."
"Well?""Well, if we waited for the 22nd June we should be too late to see the shadow of Scartaris touch the crater of Sneffels.
We are about to climb a very remarkable mountain; at the worst we are going to scramble down an extinct crater.
Hans hired the services of three Icelanders to do the duty of the horses in the transport of the burdens; but as soon as we had arrived at the crater these natives were to turn back and leave us to our own devices.
We will explore the crater.
For the elastic fluids, being no longer under pressure, go off by way of the crater instead of escaping by their usual passages through the fissures in the soil.
Still I had one hope left, and this was, that when we had reached the bottom of the crater it would be impossible, for want of a passage, to go deeper, in spite of all the Saknussemm's in Iceland.
Hence then the volcano would distend and lift up the crust, and then burst through a crater suddenly formed at the summit or thinnest part of the volcano.
At seven we had ascended the two thousand steps of this grand staircase, and we had attained a bulge in the mountain, a kind of bed on which rested the cone proper of the crater.
He began to circle round the cone of the crater, but in a diagonal direction so as to facilitate our progress.
My uncle shot a triumphant glance at me."Now for the crater!" he cried.
Involuntarily I compared the whole crater to an enormous erected mortar, and the comparison put me in a terrible fright.
But, no; I saw him, with arms outstretched and legs straddling wide apart, erect before a granite rock that stood in the centre of the crater, just like a pedestal made ready to receive a statue of Pluto.
How long I remained plunged in agonizing reflections I cannot tell; all that I know is, that on raising my head again, I saw only my uncle and Hans at the bottom of the crater.
Hans slept peaceably at the foot of a rock, in a lava bed, where he had found a suitable couch for himself; but my uncle was pacing around the bottom of the crater like a wild beast in a cage.
Thus the first night in the crater passed away.
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