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Updated: June 10, 2025
With your permission, lieutenant, where are we now?" "Sir, at this moment we have 3,508 fathoms of line out, and the ball which draws the sounding lead has not yet touched the bottom; for if so, it would have come up of itself." "Brook's apparatus is very ingenious," said Captain Blomsberry; "it gives us very exact soundings."
Meanwhile Captain Blomsberry had called his officers together, and with their permission he held a council. Something must be done immediately. The most immediate was to haul up the projectile a difficult operation, but not an impossible one. But the corvette wanted the necessary engines, which would have to be powerful and precise.
"Sir," answered Bronsfield, "we have at this moment 21,500 feet of line out, and the bullet at the end of the line has not yet touched the bottom, for the sounding-lead would have come up again." "Brook's apparatus is an ingenious one," said Captain Blomsberry. "It allows us to obtain very correct soundings."
The search continued under these conditions until the vitiated air compelled the divers to ascend. The hauling in began about six in the evening, and was not ended before midnight. "To-morrow," said J. T. Maston, as he set foot on the bridge of the corvette. "Yes," answered Captain Blomsberry. "And on another spot?" "Yes."
The direction of the corvette was therefore given in view of reaching the precise spot. At 12.47 p.m. the buoy was sighted. It was in perfect order, and did not seem to have drifted far. "At last!" exclaimed J.T. Maston. "Shall we begin?" asked Captain Blomsberry. "Without losing a second," answered J.T. Maston. Every precaution was taken to keep the corvette perfectly motionless.
A quarter of an hour after the two savants were descending the declivity of the Rocky Mountains; and two days after, at the same time as their friends of the Gun Club, they arrived at San Francisco, having killed five horses on the road. Elphinstone, the brothers Blomsberry, and Bilsby rushed toward them on their arrival. "What shall we do?" they exclaimed.
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