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"First, I thought, al,

This --

Only do not ask ht the possibility of action, but with

it little of consolation With the first visible increase of light,

I gazed into the chasm, but could not, for more than an hour, see

sufficiently well to discover its nature At last I saas alhly excavated well, only very large

I could perceive no bottom; and it was not till the sun actually rose,

that I discovered a sort of natural staircase, in ested, which led round and round the gulf, descending spirally

into its abyss I saw at once that this was lad to quit the sunlight, which stared at me most

heartlessly, I commenced my tortuous descent It was very difficult

In so to the rocks like a bat In one place, I

dropped fro spire of the stair;

which being broad in this particular portion, and standing out froles, received h soreat way, I found the stair