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Work employed the Labourers about 20 Days, with- 
out finding the leaft Appearance of Water. 
At the Diftance of about 18 Feet from the Top, 
a Stratum of a. mineral Mixture, about nine Inches 
thick, was dug through, without any Inconvenience; 
nor were the Workmen in the leaft incommoded in 
carrying on the Work, till about the 12th Day after, 
when towards the Evening they were much annoy'd 
with a faint fuffbeating Heat, (which they compar'd 
to that coming from the Mouth of an Oven) and 
which, as they were drawn up, was moft remarkably 
perceiv'd, when they came oppofite to the mineral 
Stratum above-mention'd, to come out in the Form 
of a warm fulphureous Halitus. 
The next Morning, a lufty young Man attempted 
to go. down (hand over hand, as the Workmen call it) 
by means of a fingte Rope which was ufed to draw 
up the Earth digged out ; but as foon as he came op- 
pofite to the above-mention'd Stratum , he became 
incapable of fuftaining his own Weight, fell down to 
the Bottom, and died immediately. 
Another young Man, not fufpe&ing the Caufe, had 
the Rope nimbly drawn up; and having featedhim- 
felf aftride a Crofsdtick fixed to the Rope for that 
Purpofe, was haftily let down to his Friend's Aflift- 
ance ; but when he came to the fame Diftance from 
the Top, he was obferv'd to give the Rope a very 
great Shock, and when he came to the Bottom, fell 
down, as the other had done before him, was feiz'd 
with violent Convulftons, which held him more "than 
Quarter of an Hour, and then he expir'd. 
A third Perfon, in Hopes of fetching up this fe- 
cond before he was quite dead, was tied fall into a 
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