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UNDER THE SEA. 301
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V December Lias Not Everywhere In Englan...
another as perfect , and found it close at hand . We could find p and lenty some of the we mildew so much along admired - this level that , he we wished were told he b could y the show captain us ,
where the stones were coloured with the copper tincture , but then , if we had not time— " Ohlenty of time as far as we are
concerned" we exclaimed , no , matter p how long we were so that we saw all , if it did not matter , to him . So we turned away from the
throug platform h , dark whence un-roomy we were tunnelling to resume , on our again descent to , gain and the followed last blind him
draug object alley , ht , as behold come one mi throug the ght passage call h too it , of keenl was the close y , level and d . up men ; But the at as miners hard we cam labour had hts e near found It in our the a
temperature of a bath-room may well be chary of draug . was of a p all ity Tor and us we , said should the captain find the , but tincture we were in going one place to the there lowest , thoug level h
, not so beautiful . "We retraced our stepsand presently we were again ready in our
which gig . The however signal was was not given , for our ( I think ears far by setting beneath in ) , and action down a bell we ,
slid again , quickl , y and steadily , towards the lowest deeps of the mineNow we were at the 190 levelthe bottom of the mine
. , was reached . " No , " I remonstrated , " we are not at the very bottom ? " Yes , I "was answered , the level was such another to
look at as the one we had explored , they -were all of the same kind , but this was the bottom of the mine . Then what was that dim
aperture still slanting downwards , of which indeed I could vaguely see the end ? Ohno one went there but just the men at work , it
went no farther th , an we saw , it was a terribly dirty place . No matter , lad -we who ivould had go , been we must nervous get considered to the very it a dep matter th of of all . duty The , I
himself youn said suppose , g of , course in to y a make truck , she a well was show going coated of opposition too with . Alread mud , but and y her not was brother being being listened had slowl seated y let to , -
, down a wooden way on the same slant as the tramway which had come to an end . Here we could only go one at a time , there were
two wooden ways and two trucks , but the turn of the windlass , or whatever it was calledat which our Captain John was working ,
that sent down one truck , , brought up the other . There was an accidental hitch between the two half-way down every time , and
the miner Harvey scrambled down and waited at the catching place to extricate them from each other ; also for the first moment or two
it was necessary to lie as fiat back as we could well manage , as there was not sufficient room for a person sitting upright under
the wooden landing of the level , though afterwards the arch of this prolonged shaft seemed to me higher ( perhaps by this
contrast ) than that of the tramway one . Otherwise there was no
inconvenience in the going down , except the unusual amount of
Under The Sea. 301
UNDER THE SEA . 301
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/13/
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