A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End And a Trip to the Scilly Isles
A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End And a Trip to the Scilly Isles
Walter White
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Some of the reaches form a snug anchorage, where Norwegian ships discharge their cargoes of timber, for use in the mines ; the demand being incessant. The quantity of Norway pine required every year for constructions on the surface, and for supports below, is indeed enormous : one hundred and fifty thousand trees a year, requiring one hundred and forty Digitized by VjOOQIC MINES AND AESENIC. 141 square miles of forest to keep up the supply. Here, too, is the outlet of the great adit wnich drain...s the mines of a large district as far as Kedruth. Its importance to the under- ground operations may be inferred from the fact that its main branches alone are said to comprise a length of thirty miles ; while the discharge of water, as ascertained by ob- servations made at different seasons, is from one thousand to two thousand cubic feet a minute. The mouth of the adit is thirty-nine feet above the sea-level in a valley communi- eating with the creek. A good deal of ingenuity is exhibited in getting full duty out of the water — making it turn as many wheels as possible before it is finally allowed to run to waste.
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