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The Crystal Hunters

by Fenn George Manville

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George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) was a British writer. He worked as a teacher in Lincolnshire, until he became printer, editor and publisher of various magazines. He had eight children with his wife Susanna Leake, whom he had married in 1855. Most of his works are adventure stories for young readers, featuring Explorers, Smugglers, young Adventurers and Seamen. His adult novels offer critical social commentary on Victorian England, especially reconsidering economic questions. His works include: Hollowdell Grange (1866), Featherland (1866), Christmas Penny Readings (1867), The Blue Dragoons (1875), A Little World (1877), Begumbagh (1879), Bunyip Land (1880), My Patients (1883), The Golden Magnet (1884), The Chaplain's Craze (1886), Quicksilver (1888), Lady Maude's Mania (1890), The Weathercock (1892), Real Gold (1894), The Queen's Scarlet (1895), The Black Tor (1896), A Woman Worth Winning (1898), Draw Swords! (1898), A Crimson Crime (1899), The King's Sons (1900), Fitz the Filibuster (1903) and others.

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...again, with the horror of the terrible place seeming tocrush them down, while to Saxe it was as if the waters were trying toleap at him to wash him from the narrow ledge and bear him away. Andthe farther they went on the more fearful the place seemed to grow. Thewalls dripped with moisture, as a result of the spray which rose fromthe hurrying race, and shut them in back and front with a gloomy mist, which struck cold and dank as it moistened their faces and seemedchoking to breathe. Again Dale paused, to peer down at one of the great whirling poolsbeneath the rock, which was being undermined in this place more thanever; and as Saxe clung by him and gazed down too, there was theperfectly round pool of water, with its central pipe, which, by theoptical illusion caused by the gloom and mist, looked reversed--that is, as if the concavity were convex, and he were gazing at the eye of somesubterranean monster, the effect being made more realistic by the rockoverhanging it like a huge brow....