A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Were any such heat to exist, the upper crust of the earth would be shattered to atoms, and the world would be at an end." A long, learned and not uninteresting discussion followed, which ended in this wise: He would be quite capable of undertaking the terrible journey. What must have been the aspect of the globe, during the first centuries of its formation, when under the combined action of heat and humidity, the vegetable kingdom occupied its vast surface to the exclusion of everything else? Ah—what a journey—what a marvelous and extraordinary journey!