"It's a volcano!" he cried.
| "'It's a volcano!' he cried." |
"A volcano?" said Altamont.
"Without doubt."
"At this high latitude?"
"And why not?" continued the doctor; "isn't Iceland a volcanic land, so to speak, made of volcanoes?"
"Yes, Iceland," said the American, "but so near the Pole!"
"Well, didn't Commodore James Ross find in the Southern Continent two active volcanoes, Erebus and Terror by name, in longitude 170° and latitude 78°? Why then shouldn't there be volcanoes at the North Pole?"
"It may be so, after all," answered Altamont.