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The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface

by Thomas Wallace Knox

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Excerpt from Underground, or Life Below the Surface: Incidents and Accidents Beyond the Light of Day; Startling Adventures in All Parts of the World; Mines and the Mode of Working Them; Under-Currents of Society; Gambling and Its Horrors; Caverns and Their Mysteries; The Dark Ways of WickednessThe chief intent of this work is the plain, sufficient, and enter taining description of the marvelous lives not only of miners, but of all whose lot or choice it is to delve and dare underground. That its object is secured, the author is flatteringly assured by acknowledged critics, - travelers and book-...

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