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The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS.
By Thomas Wallace Knox
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A wide-ranging, illustrated compilation examining subterranean phenomena, technologies, and human experiences beneath the earth and sea. Chapters survey coal, silver, and other mines; shaft and bore techniques; common accidents and safety measures; diving and submarine apparatus; volcanic eruptions and buried cities; and the archaeology of caves and ancient underground works. Narratives combine technical description, travel anecdotes, and accounts of exploration, rescue, and mishap to convey practical processes, natural causes of mineral formation, and the social and economic effects of mining. The tone is descriptive and popular, mixing first-hand observation with collected reports from diverse regions.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

1. Phases of Underground Life, Frontispiece
2. Austin, Nevada; A Western Mining Town, 34
3. Impressions of Plants found in Coal, 40
4. Discovery of Anthracite Coal in Pennsylvania, 40
5. Wire Railway at the Harewood Coal Mine, British Columbia, 51
6. Entrance to a Coal Mine, 54
7. Interior of a Coal Mine, 54
8. Descending a Shaft, 68
9. Sections of an English Coal Mine, 74
10. Discovery of Silver in Peru, 82
11. Interior of a Silver Mine, 82
12. Entrance to a Silver Mine of Central America, 88
13. Indian Silver Miners at Work, 88
14. One Method of Washing for Silver, 95
15. Another Method of Washing for Silver, 95
16. New York Speculators at the Mines, 108
17. Demonstrating the Value of a Silver Mine, 108
18. Pearl Diving in the East Indies, 130
19. Discovery of Loaves of Bread Baked 1800 Years Ago, 167
20. Bodies of Pompeians Cast in the Ashes, 173
21. Railroad from Naples to the Summit of Mt. Vesuvius, 187
22. Descent of Vesuvius, 188
23. Searching for Relics, 193
24. The Gate of Herculaneum and Street of Tombs, 197
25. The Crater of Vesuvius, 198
26. Bay of Naples, 206
27. Naples Wagon, 206
28. Nero’s Gymnasium, 214
29. Dr. and Mrs. Schliemann the Excavators at Mycenæ (Greece), 221
30. The Explorations at Mycenæ—the Treasury of Atreus (entrance), 224
31. Battle of the Warriors, 263
32. The Philadelphia Bank Robbery, 268
33. Australian Natives Burning their Dead, 278
34. An Indian Burial Place, 278
35. The Tombs of the Kings at Thebes, 289
36. Hall in the Tombs of Assasseef, 289
37. Pumping Well on Oil Creek, 334
38. The Grand Hotel, 356
39. Place De La Bastille, 362
40. The Bastille, 362
41. Destruction of the Bastille, 371
42. Working a Diamond Claim, 376
43. River Washing—Cradling for Diamonds, 376
44. Celebrated Diamonds of the World, 382
45. The Orloff Diamond, 382
46. Star of the South, 382
47. The Nassac, 382
48. The Cumberland, 382
49. The Sancy, 382
50. Star of the South—rough, 382
51. The Dresden, 382
52. The Regent Diamond, 382
53. The Kohinoor—recut, 382
54. Australian Brilliant, 382
55. The Eugenie, 382
56. Regent—side view, 382
57. The Hope, 382
58. The Florentine, 382
59. The Shah, 382
60. The Diamond Fields of South Africa, 391
61. Grand Avenue of the Champs Elysées, 407
62. Ball at Mabille, 415
63. East River Bridge, 426
64. Inundation of a Mine, 439
65. Falling in of a Mine, 444
66. View of Mammoth Cave, 474
67. Stalagmites in the Cave, 474
68. Execution of a Chinese Criminal, 488
69. Eastern Entrance to Hoosac Tunnel, 500
70. Western Entrance to Hoosac Tunnel, 500
71. Work at the Heading, 506
72. Boring machine used in Mount Cenis Tunnel, 518
73. Side View of Boring Machine, 518
74. Place De La Concorde, 527
75. The Madeleine Church, 530
76. Subterranean Paris, 536
77. The Great Sewer, 536
78. Quicksilver Mines of New Almaden, 554
79. Blasting in the Quicksilver Mines, 554
80. Burning of a Coolie Ship, 568
81. Coolies Planning a Mutiny, 577
82. Mutiny on the Lower Deck, 577
83. The Avondale Disaster—Removing Bodies from the Mine, 586
84. Interior of an Iron Mine, 594
85. Section of the Broadway Underground Railway, 644
86. Tunneling Broadway for the Underground Railway, 652
87. Interior of Pneumatic Passenger Car, 655
88. Portal of the Broadway Tunnel, 655
89. The Bomb Ferry—Travel in the 30th Century, 661
90. The Public Highway—Travel in the 30th Century, 661
91. Underground Rail Road Station, Aldgate London, 671
92. Conversationshaus at Baden, 708
93. Concert in the Gardens at Baden, 708
94. Gambling Saloon at Baden, 722
95. Esquimaux Dwellings, 739
96. Robbery of the Diligence, 750
97. Drinking Pisco in a San Francisco Saloon, 769
98. Jas. W. Marshall, the Discoverer of Gold in California, 790
99. Sutter’s Mills where Gold was Discovered, 790
100. Emigrant Train of Gold Hunters in 1849, 794
101. Chinese Gold Mining in California, 794
102. Gold Washing in the California Mines, 798
103. Miners Prospecting, 804
104. Miners Around their Camp-fire, 810
105. Ground Sluicing, 814
106. Hydraulic Mining, 814
107. A Copper Mine of the Lake Superior Region, 824
108. Interior of a Copper Mine, 821
109. Drilling in a Copper Mine, 824
110. Catacombs of Rome—The Three Brothers, 832
111. Vaulted Chapel in the Catacombs, 840
112. Lost in the Catacombs, 840
113. Pirates of the Mississippi, 862
114. View of Hellgate from Negro Point, 885
115. General View of Works at Hallett’s Point, 885
116. View of Shaft from the Dam, 892
117. The Shaft, Showing Headings, 892
118. Dream of a Diamond Swindler, 911
119. Descending the Shaft—Wieliczka Salt Mines, 932
120. Chapel in the Wieliczka Salt Mines, 932
121. Getting out Salt, 936
122. Illustration of the Infernal Lake, 936
123. Explosion of Fire Damp, 952
124. Our Quarters in Libby Prison, 1008
125. Tail Piece, 1016

UNDERGROUND.