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Harry, who preceded his father and the engineer, stopped. "Here we are!" exclaimed the old miner. "At last, thank Heaven! you are here, Mr. Starr, and we shall soon know." The old overman's voice trembled slightly. "Be calm, my man!" said the engineer. "I am as excited as you are, but we must not lose time." The gallery at this end of the pit widened into a sort of dark cave.
"Well said, Simon," cried the engineer, who could not restrain a smile at the overman's enthusiasm; "let us cut our trenches under the waters of the sea! Let us bore the bed of the Atlantic like a strainer; let us with our picks join our brethren of the United States through the subsoil of the ocean! let us dig into the center of the globe if necessary, to tear out the last scrap of coal."
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