Note 813 — Chapter XXIV
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My son narrowly escaped being drawn in by a heap of stones which gave way under his feet, and suddenly disappeared in the chasm below. In rambles of this kind in a mining country, the young geologist must, therefore, be upon his guard, or he may be engulphed with masses of limestone in some deep chasm, and his bones, incrusted with stalactite, form an ossiferous breccia, that in future ages may perplex some collector of organic remains to determine its relative antiquity!