Volume 1

The highlands of Aethiopia / By Major W. Cornwallis Harris.

  • Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807-1848
Date:
1844
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The highlands of Aethiopia / By Major W. Cornwallis Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    impalpable coal-dust; and rarely does it happen that for every hundred tons of fuel received, fewer than one life is forfeited by the actors in the wild scene described — some doomed victim, swollen with copious draughts, and ’ exhausted by the frenzy of excitement, invariably casting himself down when his Herculean task is done, to rally and rise up no more.