Chapter

 1 I    |         locomotives, steamers, gas works, &c., were not likely
 2 III  |   engines, machines, steamers, gas factories; certainly, that
 3 III  |      screen which prevents the gas from catching fire. The
 4 VI   |     But suppose it was another gas,” said Starr. “Firedamp
 5 VI   |    means of destroying the bad gas but by dispersing it in
 6 VI   |     filled with this injurious gas, any more than one could
 7 VI   |       gasometer full of common gas. Moreover, fire-damp, as
 8 VI   |      to show the nature of the gas, which escaped in a small
 9 VI   |        sort of pocket, full of gas, as it is sometimes found
10 VI   |      presence of the explosive gas. At any rate, if the gas
11 VI   |       gas. At any rate, if the gas had mingled at all with
12 VI   |   Starr was, not lest too much gas mingled with the air, but
13 VI   |       Father, I should say the gas was no longer escaping through
14 VI   |      his head, up to where the gas, by reason of its buoyancy,
15 VI   |   before, proved the escape of gas.~The old miner’s arm trembled
16 VI   |    Evidently not a particle of gas was escaping through the
17 VI   |        of cracks through which gas had escaped freely the night
18 XVIII|       by some jet of fire-damp gas which, issuing from that
19 XVIII| enormous quantity of explosive gas, accumulated in vast cavities,
20 XVIII|       to become aware that the gas, lighter than the lower