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where they were working and it was the same sort of thing with a cable railway going down from the surface at a 45° angle. Mr Keefe wanted to know if we wanted to go down. I was rather leery but wouldn't admit it. So the cable car took us down, just a flat car built at a 45° angle to be level and the platform maybe 9" x 12". We stood on it and started down. It was a thrilling experience. As we descended it got colder and colder. Soon we were under the great domes of the quarry which is blasted out in tremendous galleries with colossal columns of marble left to hold up the roof. Occasionally "scale" one foot to ten feet thick falls from the roof they say, but no one has been killed yet. Where we alighted was over 200 ft. below the surface in under the hill and from there the quarry slanted on downward at maybe a 20° angle. The men were working another 200 ft. farther on. The dust of the rock drills filled the place and the temperature was below freezing although on the surface it was a hot day - up around 80° I think. We went to the office down there and met the boss quarryman, Mr. Shanahan, a wonderful looking old Irishman with a white moustache. He took us on down to a point where we could see the drilling - right down in the bowels of the earth, except we were in veritable marble

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