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292 UNDER THE SEA.
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bolder bay in a- that . half- bold moon coast . The . Take scene away was the magnificent mineand , I in know its desert none
on , unsi grandeur htl of as loneliness are its appendages you might has call its it own unrivalled poetry — and but the gives mine an- ,
gy , ' _other ¦ We and retraced a stronger our steps interest , we to would its wild go locality to the . counting-house and
see if there we could be furnished with a suitable _guided My thoug Cornwall companion ht — - belonged as would it deserves make to a to famil use be , y of peop whose that le there nam talisman e will is a tell passport with you the — in and hi West gher we
we and officials to him . Our we unfolded fortune , however our request , sent . These a mine mine -cap - tain captains to meet , men us in ,
authority and necessaril over the of works education and workmen so far as , can are persons concern of their intelli calling gence .
Naturall of choice y , having However y so much that of , necessit be y I , they think are you likel cultivated y to have mor men e ,
conv whether ersation scientificall . of one y of wise these or may mine scientificall - , captains y ignor a fresher ant , will and find keener the
thing than many with which you are called on to look interested himself at ( jsoi- going disanf ) to brilliant one of conversazioni the surface . parts Our of present the mine captaiii which was we
wished to visitand offered to conduct us himself . Whereupon we rejoicingly followed , him down the pathway again , and took tlie
Down sharp hi littl the h e long above descent flig the to ht the we sea went stairs now , . whi down Two ch to we men the had were open previousl hard rock y floor at rejected - , work not .
very g breakin seated was g great breaking stones again of ore the ; at portions a little distance they had a separated young woman into
finished smaller fragments their part , of a child the process was carry . The ing ore her sent the up stones a from small as the the wooden mine men in the truckwe were informed , and landed on
p of latform the shaft stretching , , is precip between itated here the , and stairs these hig workers her up and begin the upon mouth it .
we Ther had e not was seen apparentl much . y no Like more the for king us of to France see here who , and marched certainl up y he them to the
the top hill marched with ri twent ght y back thousand again , men we , , having and when got to the got bottom of the
stairsfound that all we had to do was to go up again . So we came , to the landing , and there we walked across would and looked at the
cavernous mouth of the shaft . The " gig" come up presently with some of the miners , the captain told us , and we waited
for it . Until then I had not understood that access to the subterraneans methodand
of the mine had lately been contrived by an improved , p those that lishe instead fathoms d by means of while a of perpendicular the ladders ore was fixed drawn shaft straig whose ht up to in descent the something sides was down bucket accom all
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292 Under The Sea.
292 UNDER THE SEA .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/4/
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