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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

CHAPTER XVII
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We will see about that to-morrow.

Let us have our supper, and go to sleep." The darkness was not yet complete.

The provision case was opened; we refreshed ourselves, and went to sleep as well as we could upon a bed of stones and lava fragments.
When lying on my back, I opened my eyes and saw a bright sparkling point of light at the extremity of the gigantic tube 3,000 feet long, now a vast telescope.
It was a star which, seen from this depth, had lost all scintillation, and which by my computation should be 46; _Ursa minor._ Then I fell fast asleep..


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