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Water had collected in various hollows, forming vast ponds, or ratherlakes larger than Loch Katrine, lying just above them. Of course thewaters of these lakes had no movement of currents or tides; no oldcastle was reflected there; no birch or oak trees waved on their banks. And yet these deep lakes, whose mirror-like surface was never ruffled bya breeze, would not be without charm by the light of some electric star, and, connected by a string of canals, would well complete the geographyof this ...strange domain. Although unfit for any vegetable production, the place could beinhabited by a whole population. And who knows but that in this steadytemperature, in the depths of the mines of Aberfoyle, as well as inthose of Newcastle, Alloa, or Cardiff--when their contents shall havebeen exhausted--who knows but that the poorer classes of Great Britainwill some day find a refuge? CHAPTER VIII. EXPLORING AT Harry's call, James Starr, Madge, and Simon Ford entered through thenarrow orifice which put the Dochart pit in communication with thenew mine.
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