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Old 25-04-2016, 03:52 PM
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"On arriving at the bottom of the pit, the visitor finds a number of passages striking out in every direction, and only lighted by candles, one of which is carried by each of the pitmen. The passages are cut through the seams of coal, which are so worked as to leave `pillars` to support the roof. These are allowed to remain till the seam of coal is exhausted in a particular direction, when they also are carefully removed, and the whole is allowed to fall in. Iron tramways are laid along the passages to facilitate the progress of the heavily-laden `corves` to the mouth of the pit, and are worked by horses, which often exist without ever seeing the light of day, being born, reared and dying in the pit."

Hmm!

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