ON JANUARY 28, in latitude 9 degrees 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.

1月28日正午，当诺第留斯号浮上水面来的时候，它在北纬9度4分，望见西边八海里远有一块陆地。

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Right off, I observed a cluster of mountains about 2,000 feet high, whose shapes were very whimsically sculpted.

我首先注意一一群一山岭，这一群一上海龙凤shlf最新地址山岭约二千英尺高，山形起伏，很不整齐。

上海龙凤shlf最新地址After our position fix, I reentered the lounge, and when our bearings were reported on the chart,

测定了这陆地的方位后，我回到客厅中，把测好的经纬度跟地图一对时，

上海龙凤shlf最新地址I saw that we were off the island of Ceylon, that pearl dangling from the lower lobe of the Indian peninsula.

我发现我们是在锡兰岛面前了，它是挂在印度半岛下端的一颗宝珠。

上海龙凤shlf最新地址I went looking in the library for a book about this island, one of the most fertile in the world.

我到图书室去找一部关于这座岛的着作，它是地球上的岛屿中最富饶的一个岛。

Sure enough, I found a volume entitled Ceylon and the Singhalese by H. C. Sirr, Esq.

上海龙凤shlf最新地址我正好找到西尔所写、题名为《锡兰和锡兰人》的一部书。

Reentering the lounge, I first noted the bearings of Ceylon, on which antiquity la一上海龙凤shlf最新地址vished so many different names.

上海龙凤shlf最新地址回到客厅中来，我首先记下锡兰的方位，并且知道古时候这岛有各种不同的名称。

It was located between latitude 5 degrees 55' and 9 degrees 49' north, and between longitude 79 degrees 42' and 82 degrees 4' east of the meridian of Greenwich;

上海龙凤shlf最新地址它的位置是在北纬5度55分和9度49分2red，东经79度42分和82度4分之间，

its length is 275 miles; its maximum width, 150 miles; its circumference, 900 miles;

“岛长二百七十五英里，最宽的地方一瓦五十英里，周围900英里，

its surface area, 24,448 square miles, in other words, a little smaller than that of Ireland.

面积二万四千四百四十一八平方英里，就是说，比一爱一尔兰岛面积小一些尼摩船长和他的副手这时候进来了。