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Laboriously climbing back up his rope the equivalent of 30 floors, he started horizontal explorations which led miles beyond any known territory. One vast underground chamber, lavishly studded with stalactites, pools of water, a fountain, Nicholson and his comrades named "Hell's Half Acre." To the north of this room was a shaftway, with levels above and below. A strong air current suggested another entrance to the cave...
...problem presented by the injurious effects of ionized gases on the insulation of high voltage underground cables is of such importance that several manufacturers of these cables, and power companies as well, are supporting financially an investigation of it at the Engineering School, it was disclosed yesterday by R. F. Clifford, dean of the school...
...discovered 29 years ago when a cowboy, one Jim White, saw what he thought was volcanic smoke. The "smoke" was the effect of flocks of bats emerging for their evening insect hunt. The Government made the cave site a National Monument seven years ago, marking off 720 acres. The underground halls spread farther than that; how far, Explorer Nicholson will try to learn...
...June 27. 1927), the two guides found a crystal "garden" with an area of 500 square feet, sparkling beneath their flashlights. The crystalline formation is low and level, apparently not formed by mineral-bearing water dripping from above, as is usually the case in limestone caves. It seems an underground erosion phenomenon. The "flowers" roughly resemble cabbages...
...geology of Mount Royal and vicinity under the efficient guidance of John Dresser, geologist for the Canadian Pacific Railway. From Montreal the party traveled by a special car attached to the Transcontinental Limited of the Canadian National Railway to Noranda, Quebec. Here the evening of June 21 was spent underground in the mine of the Horne Copper Corporation. Howard M. Butter field, '26, and Roger Peale, '21, initiated the embryo geologists into the pleasures and dangers of life far underground in a comparatively deep mine. Saturday morning was occupied in a study of the surface geology of the Noranda district...