The Mines and its Wonders

The Mines and its Wonders
Автор книги: id книги: 775992     Оценка: 0.0     Голосов: 0     Отзывы, комментарии: 0 0 руб.     (0$) Читать книгу Скачать бесплатно Купить бумажную книгу Электронная книга Жанр: Зарубежная классика Правообладатель и/или издательство: Public Domain Дата добавления в каталог КнигаЛит: Скачать фрагмент в формате   fb2   fb2.zip Возрастное ограничение: 0+ Оглавление Отрывок из книги

Реклама. ООО «ЛитРес», ИНН: 7719571260.

Оглавление

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

Отрывок из книги

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.

.....

“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!”

“You were not afraid, then?” asked another man.

.....

Добавление нового отзыва

Комментарий Поле, отмеченное звёздочкой  — обязательно к заполнению

Отзывы и комментарии читателей

Нет рецензий. Будьте первым, кто напишет рецензию на книгу The Mines and its Wonders
Подняться наверх