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Total Failure of Water

           Thesetreasureshavebeenburiedatsuchaprofounddepthbytheconvulsionsofprimevaltimesthattheyrunnochanceofeverbeingmolestedbythepickaxeorthespade.

           Totheschistssucceededgneiss,partiallystratified,remarkablefortheparallelismandregularityofitslamina,thenmicaschists,laidinlargeplatesorflakes,revealingtheirlamellatedstructurebythesparkleofthewhiteshiningmica.

           Thelightfromourapparatus,reflectedfromthesmallfacetsofquartz,shotsparklingraysateveryangle,andIseemedtobemovingthroughadiamond,withinwhichthequicklydartingraysbrokeacrosseachotherinathousandflashingcoruscations.

           Aboutsixo’clockthisbrilliantfeteofilluminationsunderwentasensibleabatementofsplendour,thenalmostceased.Thewallsassumedacrystallisedthoughsombreappearance;micawasmorecloselymingledwiththefeldsparandquartztoformtheproperrockyfoundationsoftheearth,whichbearswithoutdistortionorcrushingtheweightofthefourterrestrialsystems.Wewereimmuredwithinprisonwallsofgranite.

           Itwaseightintheevening.Nosignsofwaterhadyetappeared.Iwassufferinghorribly.Myunclestrodeon.Herefusedtostop.Hewaslisteninganxiouslyforthemurmurofdistantsprings.But,no,therewasdeadsilence.

           Andnowmylimbswerefailingbeneathme.Iresistedpainandtorture,thatImightnotstopmyuncle,whichwouldhavedrivenhimtodespair,forthedaywasdrawingneartoitsend,anditwashislast.

           AtlastIfailedutterly;Iutteredacryandfell.

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