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another: earth and stone-heaps, as if they were
unfinished works of defence, extended around.
Scaffolding, and long wooden bridges, had been
erected there; large wheels turned round; long
and heavy iron chains were in continual
motion.
We stood before an immense gulf, called
"Stora Stöten," (the great mine). It had
formerly three entrances, but they fell in and
now there is but one. This immense sunken
gulf now appears like a vast valley: the many
openings below, to the shafts of the mine, look,
from above, like the sand-martin’s dark nest-holes
in the declivities of the shore: there were
a few wooden huts down there. Some
strangers in miners’ dresses, with their guide,
each carrying a lighted fir-torch, appeared at
the bottom, and disappeared again in one of the
dark holes. From within the dark wooden
houses, in which great water-wheels turned,
issued some of the workmen. They came from
the dizzying gulf – from narrow, deep wells:
they stood in their wooden shoes two and two,
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