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are several of us with lamps^ admiring the young jMushrooms 

 budding all over the rows of beds at our feet_, whichj serpent - 

 like^ are long and slim, and coil away into the darkness. 

 At about 150 feet distance there is a group of three men and 



Fig. 283. 



Plan of large Subterranean Quarry at Fortes Torres, Frepillon. S, S, S, represent 

 the plan of tlie bases of the huge supporting pillars, and the dotted lines their 

 union ^vith the roof. D, C, shows the line of the section shown in the following 

 cut, and P, place for preparing the plaster. 



a boy, each with a lamp^ again dispelling the darkness from 

 the Mushroom beds, and occupied in placing small quantities 

 of a sort of white clayey sand in the spots whence gatherings 

 have been made a few hours previously. From both sides 

 of this gloomy avenue the dark openings of others depart at 



