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Since the start upon this marvellous pilgrimage I had been through so / many astonishments that I might well be excused for thinking myself / well hardened against any further surprise. Yet at the sight of these / two letters, engraved on this spot three hundred years ago, I stood / aghast in dumb amazement. Not only were the initials of the learned / alchemist visible upon the living rock, but there lay the iron point / with which the letters had been engraved. I could no longer doubt of / the existence of that wonderful traveller and of the fact of his / unparalleled journey, without the most glaring incredulity.
Whilst these reflections were occupying me, Professor Liedenbrock had / launched into a somewhat rhapsodical eulogium, of which Arne / Saknussemm was, of course, the hero.