Kingston William Henry Giles. The Mines and its Wonders
Chapter One. The Miner’s Dangers
Chapter Two. Learning to Watch
Chapter Three. Learning to Work
Chapter Four. The Mines of Europe
Chapter Five. The Metals found in Mines
Chapter Six. Salt and Quicksilver Mines
Chapter Seven. Stalactite and Ice-Caverns
Chapter Eight. Copper Mines
Chapter Nine. Silver Mines, etcetera
Chapter Ten. Arrangements of the Mines
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Simon, taking Mark by the hand, stepped on to an iron frame-work or cage, suspended over the pit’s mouth. “Take hold of this bar and don’t move as you value your life, boy,” he said.
Mark obeyed. Several other men and two boys stepped on to the cage, it began to descend. Though little Mark had been hearing of mines all his life, and felt no especial unwillingness, yet all seemed strange about him. It appeared to him by the dim light of the lamps which his uncle and the other men held in their hands, that the shafts were rushing upwards at a fearful rate, while the light of day, which he could still see above him, grew gradually less and less. A giddiness overtook him. He might have fallen, had not his uncle still held him by the shoulder. How long he had been descending he could not tell, when he found the cage come to a stand-still, and that he was down beneath the surface of the earth, a thousand feet or more.
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“I only wish that I had a candle, and had brought a book down to read. I should not have minded it much then, although it was a hard matter to keep awake!”
