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on the edge of the tun which, attached to
heavy chains, is hoisted up, singing and
swinging the tun on all sides: they came up
merry enough. Habit makes one daring.
They told us that, during the passage
upwards, it often happened that one or another,
from pure wantonness, stepped quite out of the
tun, and sat himself between the loose stones on
the projecting piece of rock, whilst they fired
and blasted the rock below so that it shook
again, and the stones about him thundered
down. Should one expostulate with him on
his fool-hardiness, he would answer with the
usual witticism here: "I have never before
killed myself."
One descends into some of the shafts by a
sort of machinery, which looks as if they had
placed two iron ladders against each other, each
having a rocking movement, so that by treading
on the ascending-step on the one side and then
on the other, which goes upwards, one gradually
ascends, and by going on the downward sinking-step
one gets by degrees to the bottom. They
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