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tations, that it was with some difficulty Icould keep them off: having got over thisobstacle, and the men down in the pit, in-stantaneous destruction was momentarily an-ticipated when the least noise was heard.I, however, had not the least alarm or thesmallest doubt of success, and consequentlydid all I could to remove their dreadfulanxiety. The men had no sooner descendedthan the enemy was discovered, which theysay very much alarmed them, and theywould have retreated if they could, butfinding that impossible, took courage, andsoon found they had destroyed the enemyso far; advancing a little farther, they foundhim again, and again destroyed him, and soon through the whole work. Thus the firstalarm was got over, when all the knowingmen in the neighbourhood were got collectedtogether to hear the result, all of which wereastonished and amazed, that so simple look-ing an instrument should destroy and defyan enemy, heretofore unconquerable. Thesame precaution and use of the lamp, wasgone through the second day, and when thedamp was destroyed, we began working andcontinued to work in this way for someweeks.” Geo. Morris.