Only, when we see the fisheries, we'll see no fishermen. Would you be interested, Professor Aronnax, in visiting one of those fisheries?'

'The island of Ceylon,' he said, 'is famous for its pearl fisheries. Just then Captain Nemo and his chief officer appeared. It was located between latitude 5° 55' and 9° 49' north, and between longitude 79° 42' and 82° 4' east of the meridian of Greenwich its length is 275 miles its maximum width, 150 miles its circumference, 900 miles its surface area, 24,448 square miles, in other words, a little smaller than that of Ireland. Reentering the lounge, I first noted the bearings of Ceylon, on which antiquity lavished so many different names. Sure enough, I found a volume entitled Ceylon and the Singhalese by H. I went looking in the library for a book about this island, one of the most fertile in the world. After our position fix, I reentered the lounge, and when our bearings were reported on the chart, I saw that we were off the island of Ceylon, that pearl dangling from the lower lobe of the Indian peninsula. Right off, I observed a cluster of mountains about 2,000 feet high, whose shapes were very whimsically sculpted. On January 28, in latitude 9° 4' north, when the Nautilus returned at noon to the surface of the sea, it lay in sight of land some eight miles to the west. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today!

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