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Seite 101 - We are now four hundred yards out, under the bottom of the sea ; and twenty fathoms or a hundred and twenty feet below the sea level. Coast-trade vessels are sailing over our heads. Two hundred and forty feet beneath us men are at work, and there are galleries deeper yet, even below that ! The extraordinary position down the face of the cliff, of the engines and other works on the surface, at Botallack, is now explained. The mine is not excavated like other mines under the land, but under the sea!
Seite 102 - ... unlike anything that is heard on the upper ground in the free air of heaven ; a sound so sublimely mournful and still, so ghostly and impressive when, listened to in the subterranean recesses of the earth, that we continue instinctively to hold our peace, as if enchanted...
Seite 72 - What a scene was now presented to us ! It was a perfect palace of rocks ! Some rose perpendicularly and separate from each other, in the shapes of pyramids and steeples ; some were overhanging at the top, and pierced with dark caverns at the bottom ; some were stretched horizontally on the sand, here studded with pools of water, there broken into natural archways; no one...
Seite 34 - many years ago, a ship was wrecked. Not only were the sailors saved, but several free passengers of the rat species who had got on board, nobody knew how, where, or when, were also preserved by their own strenuous exertions, and wisely took up permanent quarters for the future on the terra firma of Looe Island. In process of time, and in obedience to the laws of nature, these rats increased and multiplied exceedingly ; and, being confined all within certain limits by the sea, soon became a palpable...
Seite 80 - ... hurrying backwards and forwards with their barrows, through a narrow way, kept clear for them in the throng; the glare of the lanterns giving light to the workmen, and throwing red flashes on the fish as they fly incessantly from the shovels over the side of the boat, all combine together to produce such a series of striking contrasts, such a moving picture of bustle and animation, as not even the most careless of spectators could ever forget.
Seite 35 - ... as this ! Every man, woman, and child, who could eat, could swear to the extirpation of all the rats they had eaten. The local returns of dead rats were not made by the bills of mortality but by the bills of fare ; it was getting rid of a nuisance by the...