A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH By Jules Verne CHAPTER 27 THE CENTRAL SEA At first I saw absolutely nothing. My eyes, wholly unused to the effulgence of light, could not bear the sudden brightness; and I was compelled to close them. When I was able to reopen them, I stood still, far more stupefied than astonished. Not all the wildest effects of imagination could have conjured up such a scene! "The sea--the sea," I cried. "Yes," replied my uncle, in a tone of pardonable pride; "the Central Sea. No future navigator will deny the fact of my