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It
appeared
that
this
general
region
was
the
most
sacred
spot
of
all
,
where
reputedly
the
first
Old
Ones
had
settled
on
a
primal
sea
bottom
.
In
the
new
city
--
many
of
whose
features
we
could
recognize
in
the
sculptures
,
but
which
stretched
fully
a
hundred
miles
along
the
mountain
range
in
each
direction
beyond
the
farthest
limits
of
our
aerial
survey
--
there
were
reputed
to
be
preserved
certain
sacred
stones
forming
part
of
the
first
sea-bottom
city
,
which
thrust
up
to
light
after
long
epochs
in
the
course
of
the
general
crumbling
of
strata
.
Naturally
,
Danforth
and
I
studied
with
especial
interest
and
a
peculiarly
personal
sense
of
awe
everything
pertaining
to
the
immediate
district
in
which
we
were
.
Of
this
local
material
there
was
naturally
a
vast
abundance
;
and
on
the
tangled
ground
level
of
the
city
we
were
lucky
enough
to
find
a
house
of
very
late
date
whose
walls
,
though
somewhat
damaged
by
a
neighboring
rift
,
contained
sculptures
of
decadent
workmanship
carrying
the
story
of
the
region
much
beyond
the
period
of
the
Pliocene
map
whence
we
derived
our
last
general
glimpse
of
the
prehuman
world
.
This
was
the
last
place
we
examined
in
detail
,
since
what
we
found
there
gave
us
a
fresh
immediate
objective
.
Certainly
,
we
were
in
one
of
the
strangest
,
weirdest
,
and
most
terrible
of
all
the
corners
of
earth
's
globe
.
Of
all
existing
lands
,
it
was
infinitely
the
most
ancient
.
The
conviction
grew
upon
us
that
this
hideous
upland
must
indeed
be
the
fabled
nightmare
plateau
of
Leng
which
even
the
mad
author
of
the
Necronomicon
was
reluctant
to
discuss
.
The
great
mountain
chain
was
tremendously
long
--
starting
as
a
low
range
at
Luitpold
Land
on
the
east
coast
of
Weddell
Sea
and
virtually
crossing
the
entire
continent
.
That
really
high
part
stretched
in
a
mighty
arc
from
about
Latitude
82
°
,
E.
Longitude
60
°
to
Latitude
70
°
,
E.
Longitude
115
°
,
with
its
concave
side
toward
our
camp
and
its
seaward
end
in
the
region
of
that
long
,
ice-locked
coast
whose
hills
were
glimpsed
by
Wilkes
and
Mawson
at
the
antarctic
circle
.
Yet
even
more
monstrous
exaggerations
of
nature
seemed
disturbingly
close
at
hand
.
I
have
said
that
these
peaks
are
higher
than
the
Himalayas
,
but
the
sculptures
forbid
me
to
say
that
they
are
earth
's
highest
.
That
grim
honor
is
beyond
doubt
reserved
for
something
which
half
the
sculptures
hesitated
to
record
at
all
,
whilst
others
approached
it
with
obvious
repugnance
and
trepidation
.
It
seems
that
there
was
one
part
of
the
ancient
land
--
the
first
part
that
ever
rose
from
the
waters
after
the
earth
had
flung
off
the
moon
and
the
Old
Ones
had
seeped
down
,
from
the
stars
--
which
had
come
to
be
shunned
as
vaguely
and
namelessly
evil
.
Cities
built
there
had
crumbled
before
their
time
,
and
had
been
found
suddenly
deserted
.
Then
when
the
first
great
earth
buckling
had
convulsed
the
region
in
the
Comanchian
Age
,
a
frightful
line
of
peaks
had
shot
suddenly
up
amidst
the
most
appalling
din
and
chaos
--
and
earth
had
received
her
loftiest
and
most
terrible
mountains
.
If
the
scale
of
the
carvings
was
correct
,
these
abhorred
things
must
have
been
much
over
forty
thousand
feet
high
--
radically
vaster
than
even
the
shocking
mountains
of
madness
we
had
crossed
.
They
extended
,
it
appeared
,
from
about
Latitude
77
°
,
E.
Longitude
70
°
to
Latitude
70
°
,
E.
Longitude
100
°
--
less
than
three
hundred
miles
away
from
the
dead
city
,
so
that
we
would
have
spied
their
dreaded
summits
in
the
dim
western
distance
had
it
not
been
for
that
vague
,
opalescent
haze
.
Their
northern
end
must
likewise
be
visible
from
the
long
antarctic
circle
coast
line
at
Queen
Mary
Land
.
Some
of
the
Old
Ones
,
in
the
decadent
days
,
had
made
strange
prayers
to
those
mountains
--
but
none
ever
went
near
them
or
dared
to
guess
what
lay
beyond
.
No
human
eye
had
ever
seen
them
,
and
as
I
studied
the
emotions
conveyed
in
the
carvings
,
I
prayed
that
none
ever
might
.
There
are
protecting
hills
along
the
coast
beyond
them
--
Queen
Mary
and
Kaiser
Wilhelm
Lands
--
and
I
thank
Heaven
no
one
has
been
able
to
land
and
climb
those
hills
.
I
am
not
as
sceptical
about
old
tales
and
fears
as
I
used
to
be
,
and
I
do
not
laugh
now
at
the
prehuman
sculptor
's
notion
that
lightning
paused
meaningfully
now
and
then
at
each
of
the
brooding
crests
,
and
that
an
unexplained
glow
shone
from
one
of
those
terrible
pinnacles
all
through
the
long
polar
night
.
There
may
be
a
very
real
and
very
monstrous
meaning
in
the
old
Pnakotic
whispers
about
Kadath
in
the
Cold
Waste
.
But
the
terrain
close
at
hand
was
hardly
less
strange
,
even
if
less
namelessly
accursed
.
Soon
after
the
founding
of
the
city
the
great
mountain
range
became
the
seat
of
the
principal
temples
,
and
many
carvings
showed
what
grotesque
and
fantastic
towers
had
pierced
the
sky
where
now
we
saw
only
the
curiously
clinging
cubes
and
ramparts
.
In
the
course
of
ages
the
caves
had
appeared
,
and
had
been
shaped
into
adjuncts
of
the
temples
.
With
the
advance
of
still
later
epochs
,
all
the
limestone
veins
of
the
region
were
hollowed
out
by
ground
waters
,
so
that
the
mountains
,
the
foothills
,
and
the
plains
below
them
were
a
veritable
network
of
connected
caverns
and
galleries
.
Many
graphic
sculptures
told
of
explorations
deep
underground
,
and
of
the
final
discovery
of
the
Stygian
sunless
sea
that
lurked
at
earth
's
bowels
.
This
vast
nighted
gulf
had
undoubtedly
been
worn
by
the
great
river
which
flowed
down
from
the
nameless
and
horrible
westward
mountains
,
and
which
had
formerly
turned
at
the
base
of
the
Old
Ones
'
range
and
flowed
beside
that
chain
into
the
Indian
Ocean
between
Budd
and
Totten
Lands
on
Wilkes
's
coast
line
.
Little
by
little
it
had
eaten
away
the
limestone
hill
base
at
its
turning
,
till
at
last
its
sapping
currents
reached
the
caverns
of
the
ground
waters
and
joined
with
them
in
digging
a
deeper
abyss
.
Finally
its
whole
bulk
emptied
into
the
hollow
hills
and
left
the
old
bed
toward
the
ocean
dry
.
