1. Phases of Underground Life, FRONTISPIECE. 2. Austin, Nevada; A Western Mining Town, 34 3. Impressions of Plants found in Coal, 40 4. Discovery of Anthracite Coal in Pennsylvania, 40 5. Wire Railway at the Harewood Coal Mine, British Columbia, 51 6. Entrance to a Coal Mine, 54 7. Interior of a Coal Mine, 54 8. Descending a Shaft, 68 9. Sections of an English Coal Mine, 74 10. Discovery of Silver in Peru, 82 11. Interior of a Silver Mine, 82 12. Entrance to a Silver Mine of Central America, 88 13. Indian Silver Miners at Work, 88 14. One Method of Washing for Silver, 95 15. Another Method of Washing for Silver, 95 16. New York Speculators at the Mines, 108 17. Demonstrating the Value of a Silver Mine, 108 18. Pearl Diving in the East Indies, 130 19. Discovery of Loaves of Bread Baked 1800 Years Ago, 167 20. Bodies of Pompeians Cast in the Ashes, 173 21. Railroad from Naples to the Summit of Mt. Vesuvius, 187 22. Descent of Vesuvius, 188 23. Searching for Relics, 193 24. The Gate of Herculaneum and Street of Tombs, 197 25. The Crater of Vesuvius, 198 26. Bay of Naples, 206 27. Naples Wagon, 206 28. Nero’s Gymnasium, 214 29. Dr. and Mrs. Schliemann the Excavators at Mycenæ (Greece), 221 30. The Explorations at Mycenæ—the Treasury of Atreus (entrance),224 31. Battle of the Warriors, 263 32. The Philadelphia Bank Robbery, 268 33. Australian Natives Burning their Dead, 278 34. An Indian Burial Place, 278 35. The Tombs of the Kings at Thebes, 289 36. Hall in the Tombs of Assasseef, 289 37. Pumping Well on Oil Creek, 334 38. The Grand Hotel, 356 39. Place De La Bastille, 362 40. The Bastille, 362 41. Destruction of the Bastille, 371 42.