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Updated: May 5, 2025
There are many such "knacked bals" in Cornwall, with their iron "bobs" horizontal, depressed, or raised aloft, according to the attitude in which they expired holding forth similar firm, silent, and perpetual protests and cautions.
Suddenly there was a bright blinding flash, which lit up the rugged sides of the mine, and revealed its cavernous ramifications and black depths. This was accompanied by a dull smothered report and a crash of falling rock, together with a shower of debris. Instantly the whole place was in profound darkness. "Aw, booy," exclaimed the miner; "we was too near. It have knacked us in the dark."
At the present day the ruins of that great concern may be seen standing on the wild sea-cliffs of west Cornwall, solitary, gaunt, and grey, with the iron "bob" of the pump-engine motionless and pointing up obliquely to the sky, as if the giant arm of the mine were upraised to protest for ever against the villainy and the too confiding folly that had left it standing there a monument of wasted and misdirected energy a caution to all speculators a deserted mine in the language of miners, a "knacked bal."
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