I do not know of this book, nor that by Ballantyne, but the description of
the illustration sounds as though it may have been taken from, or is based
upon, one in Simonin, L., La Vie Souterraine. I only have H. W Bristow's,
English translation — Underground Life: Or Mines and Miners, (1869), and can check
if you send a digital image.
Stafford
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