14 THE FIRE BELOW
t’s very fine but also quite so tering urned ter into an undrinkablegray sludge. It couldn’t all.”
tary ed t tence of so muc, Nebraska’s s for a long time. Foralmost a century to make andAjax. But curiously no one to wonder whe ash came from.
“I’m a little embarrassed to tell you,” Voor t I tabout it tional Geograpo confess t I didn’t know. Nobody knew.”
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e knotle about is fairly remarkable tot Ford t tinents moveabout on tion.
“Strange as it may seem,” e Ricand tribution of matterin terior of tter tand terior of th.”
tance from to ter is 3,959 miles, w so very far.
It ed t if you sunk a o ter and dropped a brick into it, it ake only forty-five minutes for it to ttom (t t point it rat).
Our otempts to penetrate to indeed. One or to a dept most mines on Eart a quarter of a mile beneat yet even come close.
Until sligury ago, -informed scientific minds kneEarterior muc a coal miner kne you could digdoance and t rock and t it. t named R. D. Oldemala, noticed t certain srated to a point deep an angle, as if tered s