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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the hollow space between the inner and outer jackets
to be deposited in our wake. We were off!
The noise was deafening. The sensation was frightful.
For a full minute neither of us could do aught but cling
with the proverbial desperation of the drowning man to
the handrails of our swinging seats. Then Perry glanced
at the thermometer.
"Gad!" he cried, "it cannot be possible--quick! What does
the distance meter read?"
That and the speedometer were both on my side of the cabin,
and as I turned to take a reading from the former I could
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