4S4 Or. Tercival en the Efccf's ofFawiniy i£c. 



Travis, a collier, aged twenty- feven, defcendecl 

 into the pic at Hurd, which is ninety yards 

 in depth ; and feveral other woikmen were in 

 readinefs to follow him. But loon after he had 

 reached the bottom, the fides of the pit fell 

 in, and he was cut' off from all fupplies of 

 the external air. The quantity of earth was 

 fo large, that it required fix days to remove 

 it : And, on Thurfday, v;hen the paflage was 

 compleatcd, the foulnefs of the vapours pre- 

 vented any one, for fome time, from venturing 

 into the works. On Friday, feveral men entered 

 the coal-mine; but not finding Travis, they 

 conjedured that he had attempted to dig his 

 way into another pit, at no great diftance. 

 They followed him by the traces of his working; 

 and on Saturday afternoon, about four o'clock, 

 he heard them, and implored their fpeedy 

 afliftance. "When they reached him, he was 

 laid upon his- belly, and raifing his head, he 

 looked at the men, and addreflcd one of them 

 by his name. But his eyes were fo fwoln and 

 protruded, that they were fiiocked with the 

 appearance of them ; and they prevailed upon 

 him to fuffer a handkerchief to be tied round 

 his head, aligning, as a reafon, that the light 

 might prove dangerous and offenfivc to him. 

 Sal volatile was then held to his noftrils, and 

 foon afterwards he complained of the hand- 

 kerchief, and defired them to remove it. They 



complied 



