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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Blinded,
flung
against
his
metal
strap
by
the
resistance
of
the
waters
they
ripped
through,
Norman
yet
retained
enough
of
consciousness
to
glimpse
beams
of
light
that
stabbed
ahead
from
the
prows
of
their
rushing
boats,
to
see
vaguely
strange
creatures
of
the
deep
blundering
in
and
out
of
those
beams
as
the
boats
hurtled
forward.
The
water
that
forced
its
way
between
his
lips
was
fresh,
he
was
vaguely
aware,
and
even
as
he
fought
to
hold
his
breath
was
aware
too
that
the
frog-men
seemed
in
no
way
incommoded
by
the
sudden
transition
into
the
water,
their
amphibian
nature
allowing
them
to
stay
under
it
far
longer
than
any
human
could
do.
The
boats
ripped
through
the
waters
at
terrific
speed
and
in
a
few
seconds
there
loomed
before
them
the
giant
metal
wall
of
the
great
dome,
going
down
into
the
depths
here.
Norman
glimpsed
vaguely
that
the
whole
colossal
dome
rested
on
a
vast
pedestal-like
mountain
of
rock
that
rose
from
the
sea's
floor
almost
to
the
surface.
Then
a
great
round
opening
in
the
wall;
the
boats
flashed
into
it
and
were
hurtling
along
a
water-filled
tunnel.
Norman
felt
his
lungs
near
bursting--when
the
tunnel
turned
sharply
upward
and
the
boats
whizzed
up
and
abruptly
out
of
the
water-tunnel
into
air!
But
it
was
not
the
open
air
again.
They
were
beneath
the
gigantic
dome!
For
as
Norman
and
Hackett
breathed
deep,
awe
fell
on
their
faces
as
they
took
in
the
scene.
Far
overhead
stretched
the
dome's
colossally
curving
roof,
and
far
out
on
all
sides.
It
was
lit
beneath
that
roof
by
a
clear
light
that
the
two
would
have
sworn
was
sunlight.
The
dome
was
in
effect
the
roof
of
a
gigantic,
illuminated
building,
and
upon
its
floor
there
stretched
a
mighty
city.
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