tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH -JULES VERNE- CHAPTER 38

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 38 THE PROFESSOR IN HIS CHAIR AGAIN Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nang cao. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 38 THE PROFESSOR IN HIS CHAIR AGAIN To understand this apostrophe of my uncle s made to absent Frenchsavants it will be necessary to allude to an event of highimportance in a paleontological point of view which had occurred alittle while before our departure. On the 28th of March 1863 some excavators working under thedirection of M. Boucher de Perthes in the stone quarries of MoulinQuignon near Abbeville in the department of Somme found a humanjawbone fourteen feet beneath the surface. It was the first fossil ofthis nature that had ever been brought to light. Not far distant werefound stone hatchets and flint arrowheads stained and encased bylapse of time with a uniform coat of rust. The noise of this discovery was very great not in France alone butin England and in Germany. Several savants of the French Institute and amongst them MM. Milne-Edwards and de Quatrefages saw at oncethe importance of this discovery proved to demonstration thegenuineness of the bone in question and became the most ardentdefendants in what the English called this trial of a jawbone. Tothe geologists of the United Kingdom who believed in the certaintyof the fact - Messrs. Falconer Busk Carpenter and others -scientific Germans were soon joined and amongst them the forwardest the most fiery and the most enthusiastic was my uncle Liedenbrock. Therefore the genuineness of a fossil human relic of the quaternaryperiod seemed to be incontestably proved and admitted. It is true that this theory met with a most obstinate opponent in de Beaumont. This high authority maintained that the soil ofMoulin Quignon was not diluvial at all but was of much more recentformation and agreeing in that with Cuvier he refused to admitthat the human species could be contemporary with the animals of thequaternary period. My uncle Liedenbrock along with the great body ofthe geologists had maintained his ground disputed and argued until M. Elie de Beaumont .