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    304 UNDER THE SEA.

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    V December Lias Not Everywhere In Englan...

    laug safe carriage h and , the has sound more to make in We the had a course descent been of our down backwards adventure over ? two , But and hours it there was , unusuall we onl were y y a

    . working long * for a the party " whim with . " ladies to draw in our it , they machine said , and had the said men , laug above hing , in

    have up when , " . been " they Well , heard considering they ' re the alive bell his , at that own any experience warned rate ; " what them and Bog to alarm beg ie ' s anxieties who pump can ing must tell us ?

    , , had He was left - above waiting ground for . us and on the he snuffed platform and with snuffed the man anxiousl -servant y about we

    usdoubtful that these , dilapidated individuals could be those whom he , was accustomed to regard as important members of society . identit

    Had the ladies been in the state of doubt as to their own y in which the skirt-curtailed little old woman " of doleful memory

    is described to have been , the recognition of their little dog would master certainly in not a miner have ' s come dress to grimed reassure with them red , and clay as Bog to ie owning could . not his

    , think of it . But there we all were , very much pleased with ourselves and each otherparticularly dirtyand not a little

    fatigued—indeed , disposed , to consider Mr . , James' considerate provision of port wine for our re-invigorating a most happy idea

    on costumes With his part all more . speed ordinary , in dread in of chill polite after life our and hot quickl - bath , y . we left re-adopted the old

    , stamp counting ing -house monster and waved the mine his unwield buildings y arms behind and us . clattered The great his

    living noisy hammers thingsFor in a b boisterous next day farewell dawn — he prett was y nearl ravened y his to last the to

    ground , destroyed . with y all his belongings by fire . But that we could not foreseewe hastened to the new . counting-house there to

    await our carriage ; , and in a little while , after wishing a heartily friendlgoodbye to Mr . James and our captainand bestowing *

    y , merril the proper homewards gratuities and ing well- with deserved us carefull thanks , y we packed were driving in the

    carriage off in y the apron mine and and , hood carry the , more the ore valuable -stones specimens we had ourselves with which knocked the

    kindness of Mr . , James had enriched us . And the next day we were able to answer our numerous . 'inquiring friends " with all

    sincerity that , so soon as the remaining ' fatigue should have worn offwe shouldif fitting opportunity offered , be ready and glad

    , , to go down Botallack again . J . A . D .

    [[ The Botallack mine has , since this paper was written , been in the the

    Illustra scene of ted a Londo frightful n News accident , with , the a woodc details ut of of the which exterior appe of ared the . mine .

    Ifc occurred in the oblique tunnel , or shaft , so graphically described

    304 Under The Sea.

    304 UNDER THE SEA .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/16/