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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: of the mine. He knew that above this seam lay the Firth of Clyde,
that there extended Loch Lomond and Loch Katrine. Those columns supported
a spur of the Grampian mountains. This vault served as a basement
to Dumbarton. Above this large pond passed the Balloch railway.
Here ended the Scottish coast. There began the sea, the tumult
of which could be distinctly heard during the equinoctial gales.
Harry would have been a first-rate guide to these natural catacombs,
and all that Alpine guides do on their snowy peaks in daylight he could
have done in the dark mine by the wonderful power of instinct.
He loved New Aberfoyle. Many times, with his lamp stuck
in his hat, did he penetrate its furthest depths.
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