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The
workmen
,
after
laying
the
stones
from
the
circumference
to
the
center
,
were
thus
enclosed
within
a
kind
of
well
twenty-one
feet
in
diameter
.
When
this
work
was
accomplished
,
the
miners
resumed
their
picks
and
cut
away
the
rock
from
underneath
the
wheel
itself
,
taking
care
to
support
it
as
they
advanced
upon
blocks
of
great
thickness
.
At
every
two
feet
which
the
hole
gained
in
depth
they
successively
withdrew
the
blocks
.
The
wheel
then
sank
little
by
little
,
and
with
it
the
massive
ring
of
masonry
,
on
the
upper
bed
of
which
the
masons
labored
incessantly
,
always
reserving
some
vent
holes
to
permit
the
escape
of
gas
during
the
operation
of
the
casting
.
This
kind
of
work
required
on
the
part
of
the
workmen
extreme
nicety
and
minute
attention
.
More
than
one
,
in
digging
underneath
the
wheel
,
was
dangerously
injured
by
the
splinters
of
stone
.
But
their
ardor
never
relaxed
,
night
or
day
.
By
day
they
worked
under
the
rays
of
the
scorching
sun
;
by
night
,
under
the
gleam
of
the
electric
light
.
The
sounds
of
the
picks
against
the
rock
,
the
bursting
of
mines
,
the
grinding
of
the
machines
,
the
wreaths
of
smoke
scattered
through
the
air
,
traced
around
Stones
Hill
a
circle
of
terror
which
the
herds
of
buffaloes
and
the
war
parties
of
the
Seminoles
never
ventured
to
pass
.
Nevertheless
,
the
works
advanced
regularly
,
as
the
steam-cranes
actively
removed
the
rubbish
.
Of
unexpected
obstacles
there
was
little
account
;
and
with
regard
to
foreseen
difficulties
,
they
were
speedily
disposed
of
.
At
the
expiration
of
the
first
month
the
well
had
attained
the
depth
assigned
for
that
lapse
of
time
,
namely
,
112
feet
.
This
depth
was
doubled
in
December
,
and
trebled
in
January
.
During
the
month
of
February
the
workmen
had
to
contend
with
a
sheet
of
water
which
made
its
way
right
across
the
outer
soil
.
It
became
necessary
to
employ
very
powerful
pumps
and
compressed-air
engines
to
drain
it
off
,
so
as
to
close
up
the
orifice
from
whence
it
issued
;
just
as
one
stops
a
leak
on
board
ship
.
They
at
last
succeeded
in
getting
the
upper
hand
of
these
untoward
streams
;
only
,
in
consequence
of
the
loosening
of
the
soil
,
the
wheel
partly
gave
way
,
and
a
slight
partial
settlement
ensued
.
This
accident
cost
the
life
of
several
workmen
.
No
fresh
occurrence
thenceforward
arrested
the
progress
of
the
operation
;
and
on
the
tenth
of
June
,
twenty
days
before
the
expiration
of
the
period
fixed
by
Barbicane
,
the
well
,
lined
throughout
with
its
facing
of
stone
,
had
attained
the
depth
of
900
feet
.
At
the
bottom
the
masonry
rested
upon
a
massive
block
measuring
thirty
feet
in
thickness
,
while
on
the
upper
portion
it
was
level
with
the
surrounding
soil
.
President
Barbicane
and
the
members
of
the
Gun
Club
warmly
congratulated
their
engineer
Murchison
;
the
cyclopean
work
had
been
accomplished
with
extraordinary
rapidity
.
During
these
eight
months
Barbicane
never
quitted
Stones
Hill
for
a
single
instant
Keeping
ever
close
by
the
work
of
excavation
,
he
busied
himself
incessantly
with
the
welfare
and
health
of
his
workpeople
,
and
was
singularly
fortunate
in
warding
off
the
epidemics
common
to
large
communities
of
men
,
and
so
disastrous
in
those
regions
of
the
globe
which
are
exposed
to
the
influences
of
tropical
climates
.
Many
workmen
,
it
is
true
,
paid
with
their
lives
for
the
rashness
inherent
in
these
dangerous
labors
;
but
these
mishaps
are
impossible
to
be
avoided
,
and
they
are
classed
among
the
details
with
which
the
Americans
trouble
themselves
but
little
.
They
have
in
fact
more
regard
for
human
nature
in
general
than
for
the
individual
in
particular
.
Nevertheless
,
Barbicane
professed
opposite
principles
to
these
,
and
put
them
in
force
at
every
opportunity
.
So
,
thanks
to
his
care
,
his
intelligence
,
his
useful
intervention
in
all
difficulties
,
his
prodigious
and
humane
sagacity
,
the
average
of
accidents
did
not
exceed
that
of
transatlantic
countries
,
noted
for
their
excessive
precautions
--
France
,
for
instance
,
among
others
,
where
they
reckon
about
one
accident
for
every
two
hundred
thousand
francs
of
work
.
