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(1851) [MARC] Author: H. C. Andersen
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By one of the large openings, called "Fat
Mads," there are rich copper mines, but which
have not yet been worked. A building stands
above it: it was at the bottom if this that they
found, in the year 1719, the corpse of a young
miner. It appeared as if he had fallen down that
very day, so unchanged did the body seem –
but no one knew him. An old woman then
stepped forward and burst into tears: the
deceased was her bridegroom, who had disappeared
forty nine years ago. She stood there
old and wrinkled; he was young as when they
had met for the last time nearly half a century
before.[1]

We went to "The Plant House," as it is
called, where the vitriolated liquid is crystallized
to sulphate of copper. It grew up long sticks
placed upright in the boiling water, resembling


[1]
In another mine they found, in the year 1635, a
corpse perfectly fresh, and almost with the appearance
of one asleep ; but his clothes, and the ancient copper
coins found on him, bore witness that it was two hundred
years since he had perished there.

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