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TOtDER THE SEA. 303:
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V December Lias Not Everywhere In Englan...
for the mere whim of being * a few roods underground farther from the beach . So now we were to re-ascend : we half regretted , yet ,
there really was no more for us to do down there . Of course the upward journey was far slower than the
downward—there were little sudden slackening's of speed , and slight , very and this slight time jerks assisted . Meanwhil by our e our candles eyes , more could used discern to the the obscurity uncouth _^ ,
, projections our are sli strange ht curves and road massive . once The or shaft shadows twice is in not of the entirel the great y and a strai blocks now ght we that lin could e , g , there irde see d - way
that wh g at we had before taken for projections , larger and more irregular than elsewhere , when in the descent we were warned considered
to points latforms beware when of of we the roug rounded various h contact levels corners , mig about ht unaw rather ares a score . be We in number noticed now I turning think the _s
p and observed the beautiful milde , w festoons wreathed again and again along" the roof—¦ " an expensive the extraction ornament of " as has Mr weakened . James
or told removed us , for the where support ( as often of the ) natural roofing in ore a level , timber is substitutedand it may easily be imagined that its frequent
decay is at as ; frequent a cost to the funds of the mine . We did not sinas we went up to grass—but at least our
j Cornish ourney was in measured iritthe g with of rhyme the mines , very and Corni of sh the in fisheries sound and , which very .
Captain John sp ranted , paean to us . He told how they dug so many and how so many they I worked fathoms can remember it more out — , and and no part so then on of , they but it with excepting came distinctness upon those the . two ore It , first was and
romances get quaint beyond however the commencement , and amused _iis of its while descri we ption listened of the . fisheries "We did . not
In a few minutes we saw the grey light glimmering far up at the mouth of the shaft;—gradually we came into a dull twilight ,, round
then nearer and nearer into the greyness growing whiter us . But out of the shaft finallwe seemed to burst into day . As if we
had not before seen it y the sea beneath us seemed to force itself our the great , waves dashing more tuniultuously
upon eyes , we than sat ever still in drawn high along white , and breakers the earth ri - g colouring ht below and the the road grey wher -blue e
we sky had had , a come glare out - and of a cavern strangeness homes , pleasant into a and new wonderful world of as sun if
li stuck g Witlx ht and our due shade candles regard . into to our appearance hats , and , we flattered all b ourselves efore issuing we habili looked forth _,
ments at least . miner Thus - equ like ipped —especiall we regained y as to the the outer condition world of . our They took - all carebut they could not help tilting us backwards with a jerk
as our g , ig drooped on to the platform * What can you do when a
Totder The Sea. 303:
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 303, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/15/
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