Transcription: For weeks we traveled deeper into the bowels of the Earth. My own calculations had shown that at the present rate of descent we should take about five and a half years to reach the center of the Earth. Completely absorbed in my work as we went along, I was examining a piece of granite by means of the lamp, when I suddenly realized I was completely alone. Evidently I had become separated from my companions and had entered a different gallery. My situation could be summed up in three awful words. Lost, lost, lost! In the middle of this anguish, a new horror took possession of my soul. I dropped ...
