Chapter 9
THE DARK PYRAMIDNow in two hours more I was come clear down out of the Gorge,
and stood in that Country; and for all that I did feel fresh
troubled and bewildered, yet was I rejoiceful, as you may believe,
in the surprising light and splendour of that sudden Land.
And before that I had come down out of the great Gorge, I had
stood high within the mouth thereof, and lookt well out over the
mighty Country. And I had counted seven and twenty great volcanoes,
and this doth not take heed of two monstrous ranges of fire-hills
that burned afar off, something unto my right. Neither doth it take
account of an hundred thousand lesser places of fire.
And truly it did seem a very land of fire and water. For there
was a small fire-hill stood within a sea, as it did seem no more
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