Journey to the Center of the Earth- entry 2

The plot of this book is still rather slow but it has picked up since last time.  Now the Professer and his nephew,  Henry,  ( yes it was just mentioned.) along with Hans continue on their journey to the center of the Earth.  They first hike up Mount Sneffels and soon reach the top.  As the parchment read before, the sun will cast a shadow on the abbyss at midday near the end of July.  The shadow made an exact point of where to descend.  So they set up ropes and climb down, shifting the rope 28 times before reaching the bottom.  They have decsended over one mile before hitting solid ground.  Once there, they wander through giant rooms and through an Eastern bound tunnel before running out of water.  So they head back to the fork where they turned of towars the East and tried going West before Henry can no longer take the dehydration.  As he is lying on the ground unconsicous but alive,  Hans goes through the western tunnel and hears a river of water but it is separated by a wall of rock.  So they wait until Henry has enough energy to walk to the torrent and then Hans started hitting the wall with a crowbar.  Finally after an hour of work, the wall finally cracked spewing out water hard.  Henry in disstress stuck his head in the water realizing it was near boiling.  Now they have a large ammount of water but it is hot.  So they just let it cool before drinking.  This is as far as they got in these chaopters.