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Thus down, down, he goes, sinking his shaft and driving his levels on that is, always following the lode ad infinitum. Of course he must stop before reaching the other side of the world! At the present time Botallack has progressed in that direction to a depth of 245 fathoms.
Thus did Maggot auspiciously begin the making of his fortune which was originated and finally completed by his successful mining operations at Botallack. And let it be observed here, that he was neither the first nor the last poor man who became prosperous and wealthy by similar means.
About a mile westward is the old Botallack mine, perhaps the most famous in all Cornwall, which reached to the sea and considerably beyond; it was long closed, and the decayed buildings had quite a romantic appearance on the wild, bare cliffs, but the revival of Cornish minings has brought a new activity.
On the surface about two hundred men, women, and boys are employed "dressing" the ore, etcetera. Other mines there are in the great mining centres of Cornwall Redruth, St. Just, St. Austell, and Helston, which are well worthy of note some of them a little deeper, and some richer than Botallack.
"Still, the disease may be cured by the remedy I recommend," said Oliver. "No, man, it can't," cried the old gentleman with a perplexed expression, "because the dirty things are already sold and the money is invested in Botallack shares, to sell which and pay back the cash in the present depressed state of things would be utter madness.
The gig conveys the men to and from their work the ore being drawn up by another iron carriage. Nevertheless, the Prince and Princess of Wales did not shrink from descending this deep burrow under the sea in the year 1865. It was a great day for St. Just and Botallack that 24th of July on which the royal visit was paid.
The recent successes he had met with in Botallack enabled him to achieve his aim more rapidly than he had anticipated, and on the day following that in which Clearemout received his deserts, he went to Penberth Cove to see that all was in readiness, for pilchards had recently appeared off the coast in small shoals.
Oliver's last visit that day was to the man John Batten; who had exploded a blast-hole in his face the day before. This man dwelt in a cottage in the small hamlet of Botallack, close to the mine of the same name. The room in which the miner lay was very small, and its furniture scanty; nevertheless it was clean and neatly arranged.
After leaving Redruth the travellers proceeded over the wildest and most desolate of moorlands, with blocks of stone scattered about, towards the wonderful Botallack Mine, on the Cornish coast. No mine in the world is so singularly placed. Descending to the shore below, on looking upwards, the view appeared fearfully grand.
This frugal fare was washed down with water drawn from little flat barrels or canteens, while they commented lightly, grumblingly, or laughingly, according to temperament, on the poor condition of the lode at which they wrought. We have already said that in mining, as in other things, fortune fluctuates, and it was "hard times" with the men of Botallack at that period.
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