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...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ... 5 Jules Verne prompt them to bestow will be gladly added to the Man- sion-House Iceland Relief Fund. In his desire to ascertain how far the picture o... ...bly injure a specimen by his too great ardour in handling it; but still he united the genius of a true geolo- gist with the keen eye of the mineralogi... ..., metals whose current value altogether disappeared in the presence of the republican equality of sci- entific specimens; and stones too, enough to re... ... literary society; learned strangers think themselves honoured in becoming members of it. It publishes books which educate our fellow-countrymen, and ... ...iavik, and Dr. Hyaltalin, the first medical man of the place, being of the party. M. Fridrikssen was not there. I learned afterwards that he and the G... ...Am I then fated—I, a denizen of earth—to be placed face to face with these representatives of long extinct families? No; surely it cannot be! Yet the ... ...ourney to the Interior of the Earth all the principal cities in the United States! But there was one ‘dead fly’ amidst all this glory and honour; one ...

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