. Annals of philosophy. 1^ Accident at Felling Colliery^ the tube drift of this shaft: this drift had long been closed^ but the additional stopping was added, for greater security against the fire damp escaping. Preparations now began to be made for re-opening the mine. For this purpose a brattice or partition of thin deals, began to be put down the William Pit; of which and its furnace-tube and whim-gin, the annexed figure is a section. The black line down the shaft represents the brattice, which, in this case, was made to assist the workmen in raising the clay thrown down the shaft on th
. Annals of philosophy. 1^ Accident at Felling Colliery^ the tube drift of this shaft: this drift had long been closed^ but the additional stopping was added, for greater security against the fire damp escaping. Preparations now began to be made for re-opening the mine. For this purpose a brattice or partition of thin deals, began to be put down the William Pit; of which and its furnace-tube and whim-gin, the annexed figure is a section. The black line down the shaft represents the brattice, which, in this case, was made to assist the workmen in raising the clay thrown down the shaft on the 27th and 29th of May. About this time many idle tales were circu- lated through the country concerning several of the men finding their way to the shafts, and being recoveredo Their number was circumstantially told—how they subsisted on candles, oats, and beans—^how they heard the persons, who visited the mine on the day of the accident, and the Wednesday following, but were too feeble to speak sufficiently loud to make themselves heard. Some conjurer, too, it was said, had set his spells and divinations to work, and penetrated the whole secrets of the mine. He had discovered one famishing group receiving drops of water from the roof of the mine—another eating their shoes and clothes, and other such pictures of misery. These inventions were carefully related to the widows, and answered the purpose of every day harrowing up their sorrows afresh. Indeed, it seemed the chief employment of some to a kind of insane sport of their own and their neighbours' calamity. On the i9th of June, it was discovered that the water oozing out of the tubbing of the William Pit, had risen to the height of 24 feet upon the clay. On the 3d of July, this being all overcome, the brattice finished, and a great part of the clay drawn up, the sinkers began to bore a crow-hole at O, out of the shaft into the north drift. On the next day, the stoppings in the tube drift of the John Pit were ta
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