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How can any man be alive to the significance of a wreck and fluttering flag which he sees twenty times a day? Noah, no doubt, after a year in the ark, came to look upon it as so much gopher-wood, and appreciated it as a good job of joinery rather than a divine symbol.
"My children shall never believe anything else!" He was grave and sympathetic, though a muscle in his thin cheek twitched. "I believe the toy Ark of our happy childish memories is built, if not of gopher-wood, at least upon the lines laid down in Scripture. Has Hammy ever tried to get his to float? Mine invariably used to sink straight to the bottom of the bath.
The Great Eastern's length is 680 feet, its breadth 83 feet, and its depth from deck to keel 60 feet. The ark was built of gopher-wood, which is thought by some to be pine, by others cedar. It consisted of three stories, and had a window and a door, and was pitched within and without.
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