Newton is situated in exactly 77@ south latitude,and 16@ east longitude. It forms an annular crater, the ramparts of which, rising to a height of 21,300 feet,seemed to be impassable.
Barbicane made his companions observe that the height of this mountain above the surrounding plain was far from equaling the depth of its crater. This enormous hole was beyond all measurement, and formed a gloomy abyss, the bottom of which the sun's rays could never reach. There, according to Humboldt,reigns utter darkness, which the light of the sun and the earth cannot break. Mythologists could well have made it the mouth of hell.