...Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...in sight of the In- dian coast: two hours later the pilot came on board. A range of hills lay against the sky in the horizon, and soon the rows of pal... ...as, down to the time of the great Sepoy insurrection. It gradually annexed province after province, purchasing them of the na- tive chiefs, whom it se... ...tal of the ferocious Aureng-Zeb, now the chief town of one of the detached provinces of the kingdom of the Nizam. It was there- abouts that Feringhea,... ...er to keep the open country, which lies along the first depressions of the basin of the great river. Allahabad was now only twelve miles to the north-... ...assepartout observed with much curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly ranged houses, the Anglo-Saxon Gothic churches, the great docks, the palati... ...rteen thousand feet in length, was pierced in order to arrive at the great basin. The track up to this time had reached its highest elevation at the G...

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...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the... ...assics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...for instance the fifth, uneeief, or the last but one, oseibo. Now this ar- rangement has evidently not been premeditated; it has arisen mathematically... ...ow, would soon efface the rare travellers’ footsteps. Yet this part of the province, at a very small distance from the capital, is reckoned among the ... ...e. I stood on the very summit of the southernmost of Snaefell’s peaks. The range of the eye extended over the whole island. By an optical law which ob... ...rney to the Interior of the Earth streams flowed softly down to the common basin, gliding down the gentle slopes with a softer murmur. Amongst these s... ...m a fall, a cataract, if all this ocean flows away head- long into a lower basin yet, if that deafening roar is pro- duced by a mass of falling water,...

...Excerpt: While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a clergyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, listed below?...

...20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues U... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portabl... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e days’ delay, which caused great uneasiness in Liverpool, she entered the basin of the company. The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dr... ...ear, that old language of Rabelais, which is still in use in some Canadian provinces. The harpooner’s family was originally from Quebec, and was alrea... ...gether. Then turning back I struck against a wooden table, near which were ranged several stools. The boards of this prison were concealed under a thi... ...rter of the horizon at once. This faculty—(I verified it later)—gave him a range of vision far superior to Ned Land’s. When this stranger fixed upon a... ...idacne, a goblet which could have contained a whole lake of holy- water, a basin the breadth of which was more than two yards and a half, and conseque...

...Excerpt: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable inci dent, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly...