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effect of the wind-blown sands alongside the miners' buildings in 

 the eleven years that have elapsed since the last work was done 

 there. The pit is about four thousand feet in diameter and nearly 





Pig. 100. — Looking west at the 6()(i tout wall of the pit from 

 of the bottom of the crater. 



the middle 



circular in shape. The rim of splashed-up rock is a very con- 

 spicuous object on the desert, rising, as it does, upwards of a 

 hundred feet above the plain. The great number of fragments of 



