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Headlong Speed Upward Through the Horrors of Darkness

           Butnowweweremountingupwithexcessivespeed.Sometimestheairwouldcutourbreathshort,asisexperiencedbyaeronautsascendingtoorapidly.Butwhilsttheysufferfromcoldinproportiontotheirrise,wewerebeginningtofeelacontraryeffect.Theheatwasincreasinginamannertocauseusthemostfearfulanxiety,andcertainlythetemperaturewasatthismomentattheheightof100°Fahr.

           Whatcouldbethemeaningofsuchachange?UptothistimefactshadsupportedthetheoriesofDavyandofLiedenbrock;untilnowparticularconditionsofnon-conductingrocks,electricityandmagnetism,hadtemperedthelawsofnature,givingusonlyamoderatelywarmclimate,forthetheoryofacentralfireremainedinmyestimationtheonlyonethatwastrueandexplicable.Werewethenturningbacktowherethephenomenaofcentralheatruledinalltheirrigourandwouldreducethemostrefractoryrockstothestateofamoltenliquid?Ifearedthis,andsaidtotheProfessor:

           "Ifweareneitherdrowned,norshatteredtopieces,norstarvedtodeath,thereisstillthechancethatwemaybeburnedaliveandreducedtoashes."

           Atthisheshruggedhisshouldersandreturnedtohisthoughts.

           Anotherhourpassed,and,exceptsomeslightincreaseinthetemperature,nothingnewhadhappened.

           "Come,"saidhe,"wemustdetermineuponsomething."

           "Determineonwhat?"saidI.

           "Yes,wemustrecruitourstrengthbycarefullyrationingourselves,andsoprolongourexistencebyafewhours.Butweshallbereducedtoverygreatweaknessatlast."

           "Andourlasthourisnotfaroff."

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