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The autograph manuscript of “The Terror of Blue John Gap” reproduced above is courtesy of Dartmouth College Library, Rauner Special Collections, MS-93: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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It [deleted: descended / inserted: went down] at an acute angle for some fifty feet,
the floor being covered with broken [deleted: rock / inserted: stones]. Thence there extended a long
straight passage cut in the solid rock. I am no geologist but the
lining of this corridor was certainly of some harder material than
limestone for there were points where I could actually see the
[deleted: quarry / inserted: tool] marks which the old miners had left in their
excavation as fresh as if they had been done yesterday. Down
this strange old world corridor I stumbled, my feeble [deleted: light] flame
throwing a dim circle of light around me which made the shadows
beyond the more threatening and [deleted: [illegible] / inserted: obscure]. Finally I came to a spot
where the Roman tunnel opened into a water worn limestone
cavern, a huge hall, hung with long [deleted: white / inserted: lime] icycles of white deposit.
From this central chamber I could [deleted: [illegible] / inserted: dimly] perceive that a number
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