"I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!"
— Jules Verne

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Griffith and Farran, 1871), Ch. XVII: Vertical descent — This sentence, like many others in the Griffin and Farran translation of the book, has no source in the original French text.