Chapter 9 Chapter Nine New Aberfoyle

If, by some superhuman strength, a few engineers were able to lay a whole lot of land, it would be a thousand feet thick to support the lakes, rivers, bays and riverine lands of Stirlingshire, Dumbartonshire and Renfrewshire. Remove this part, and they will find that under this huge cover lies an endless hole, which is so large that there is only one other in the world comparable to the famous Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. The cave consists of hundreds of chambers of various shapes and sizes.It is almost a beehive, with many tiers of cells arranged arbitrarily, but it is a cell of enormous proportions, and inhabited not by bees, but by all the fishes, sloths, and chiropteras of geological time. Dragons make their home here!

It is a veritable labyrinth, some higher than the vaults of the tallest cathedrals, others like cloisters, narrow and tortuous, the latter stretching along the horizon, the former climbing or sinking in every direction to bring the caverns together. And leave a clear line of communication between them. The pillars supporting these vaults, with their varied curves and thick walls, sit firmly between the alleys, and in this layer of the Mesozoic strata the temples themselves are composed of sandstone and slate.But between these unusable formations stretched a considerable number of coal veins tightly compressed by the formation, as if the black blood of this strange coal mine flowed through their intricate web.These deposits stretch for forty miles from north to south, and are even sunken deep under the North Canal.The importance of the coalfield can only be assessed after it has been probed, but it should be worth more than the carbonaceous deposits at Cardiff in Wales and the Newcastle deposit in Northumberland.

It should also be noted that the mining of this coal mine will be particularly easy because, due to the peculiar arrangement of the Mesozoic strata, nature has already multiplied the Neo-Afician by an unexplained retraction of the minerals of the geological period that solidified this group. Foyle's alleys and tunnels. Yes, only nature can do that!We might even believe that, in the first place, a mining field was discovered that had been abandoned for centuries.There is no such thing.No one would give up such a fortune.Human termites have never gnawed at this part of the Scottish subterranean nature made these things.But it can be said again that there is no underground palace in the Egyptian era, no catacombs in the Roman era can be compared with it. If it is not the famous Mammoth Cave, it has two One hundred and twenty-six roads, eleven lakes, seven rivers, eight waterfalls, thirty-two deep wells, and fifty-seven vaults, some of which hang at heights of more than four hundred and fifty feet .

These caves are such that New Aberfoyle is not the work of man but of the Creator. Such was this new domain, with its incomparable riches, the discovery of which belonged to the old overman himself.Ten years of living in an old coal mine, the rare persistence in exploration, once made up his mind, is supported by the incredible instinct of the miner. He must gather all these conditions to be successful. At this point, how many people are there? Others will fail and retreat.Why in the last few years of mining, by James.The exploration led by Starr just stopped at this boundary, or even at the boundary of the new mine?This is by chance, and in this type of quest the surface to be probed is enormous.

At any rate, beneath Scotland there is a kind of subterranean county in which to live there is nothing but sunshine, or, when there is no sunshine, the light of a special planet. There the water accumulated in certain depressions, forming huge ponds, or even lakes larger than the Catlin just above them.There is no question that the water in these lakes is stagnant, with no currents and no breakouts.They don't have the reflection of some old Gothic castles.Not a birch nor a tree leans over the rocky edge of the lake, the mountains do not stretch their great shadows over the lake, the steamboats do not plow furrows on the lake, no light reflects on the water, the sun does not Drenched with its bright light, the moon never rises above the horizon.But these deep lakes, whose mirrors cannot be wrinkled by the breeze, are not devoid of charm under the light of some electric planet, and they are held together by a cord of canals, which beautifully complete this strange realm. geographical works.

Although it is not suitable for growing all kinds of vegetables, this underground area can be used for the whole population.And who knows, if it is as good here as the coal mines of Newcastle, Alloah, or Cardiff, deep underground where the temperature of these coal mines in Aberfoyle is constant, who knows when their deposits are exhausted. Wouldn't the poorer classes of the United Kingdom one day use this as a sanctuary?