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.. IN ICELANDIC BY ARNE SAKNUSSEMM, A 16
TH CENTURY SAGE AND ALCHEMIST, WAS THE R
EASON FOR THEIR DEPARTURE.....YOU, PROFE
SSOR GUNNARSON.YOU, PROFESSOR BOURDON.YO
U, PROFESSOR RUTHERFORD.YOU, PROFESSOR R
OSSI. EMINENT SCIENTIST, MEET YOUR ILLUS
TRIOUS COLLEAGUE AND CONVINCE HIM TO DEP
ART ONCE AGAIN AS PROOF OF HIS GOOD FAIT
H. HERE YOU ARE ONE MONTH LATER IN ICELA
ND AT THE FOOT OF SNEFFELS VOLCANO, READ
Y FOR ADVENTURE !.AFTER A DAY SPENT DESC
ENDING THE SNEFFELS CHIMNEY, 3000 FEET D
EEP, THE EXPEDITION SPEND TWO DAYS MOVIN
G THROUGH A GALLERY OF VOLCANIC ROCK ...
.SUDDENLY !.UNHAPPY THE TRAVELLER WHO WI
LL NEVER REACH THE JOURNEY'S END, YOUR M
EMORIES WILL BE FOR EVER FORGOTTEN. FOR
THE PEACE OF YOUR SPIRIT YOU SHOULD KNOW
THAT YOU ARE NOW IN THE PARADISE OF MAR
TYRS TO SCIENCE, WHICH IS GROWING DAY BY
DAY..YOU ARE OUT OF THIS MASS OF ROCK I
N ONE PIECE, BUT YOU HAVE BEEN SEPARATED
FROM THE LIDENBROCK GROUP. HOWEVER, YOU
DECIDE TO CONTINUE THE JOURNEY...ACCORD
ING TO WHAT PROFESSOR LIDENBROCK SAID, T
HE NEXT OBJECTIVE IS A FOREST OF MUSHROO
MS..YOU MOVE THROUGH A HIGH, HORIZONTAL
GALLERY WHICH EVENTUALLY OPENS OUT INTO
AN IMMENSE CHAMBER COVERED WITH A FOREST
OF GIANT MUSHROOMS......YOU HAVE JUST C
OMPLETED THE FIRST LEG OF YOUR JOURNEY T
O THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH. YOU THEN FIND
A TEXT CARVED ON THE TRUNK OF THE LARGE
ST MUSHROOM :...'WHEN THE BONE GLEAMS, C
OURAGEOUS TRAVELLER, YOU WILL BE NEAR JO
URNEY'S END'..A.S...AROUND A CORNER OF T
HE NARROW PASSAGE YOU ARE FOLLOWING, A M
AGNIFICENT CHAMBER COVERED WITH ALL SORT
S OF BONES LEAPS INTO VIEW. IT'S BRIGHTN
ESS BLINDS YOU FOR A MOMENT.....YOU SOON
SEE A MAN-MADE PILE OF BONES, ON TOP OF
WHICH THERE IS A LARGE SHELL MORE THAN
10 FEET LONG, ON WHICH THE FOLLOWING WOR
DS ARE CARVED:....'FIND THE CURRENT AND
FOLLOW IT, COURAGEOUS TRAVELLER, AND YOU
WILL REACH YOUR GOAL.'.. A.S..
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