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"Ah, well, you won't, my boy, for there's everything to do first." "Everything to do?" "Of course. It's not like taking a few bottles and pill-boxes and a net or two to go up on the moor. Why, there's our ship to find first, and then to get her fitted with our nets and sounding-lines and dredges and all sorts of odds and ends, with reserves and provisions for all that we lose.
Sometimes, they dexterously used their dredges to whip away anything that might lie within reach. Some of them were mighty neat at this, and the accomplishment was called dry dredging.
It is searching for "missing links;" it measures the skulls of degraded races for proofs of its theories. It has travellers and adventurers on the lookout for tribes who have no conception of God, and no religious rites; it searches caves and dredges lakes for historical traces of man when he had but recently learned to "stand upright upon his hind legs."
This battery soon drove out our dredges, two in number, which were doing the work of thousands of men. Had the canal been completed it might have proven of some use in running transports through, under the cover of night, to use below; but they would yet have to run batteries, though for a much shorter distance.
They had heard the emergency orders being given. Soon they would be flashed along the whole length of the Canal, bringing to the scene the scows, the dredges, the centrifugal pumps the men and the machinery that would tear out the earth that had no right to be where it had slid.
"That valley" she indicated the tropical plain between the hills, wherein floating dredges were at work "will be an inland sea. Those forests will be under water." "Where is the Gatun dam I've heard so much about?" She pointed out a low, broad ridge or hog-back linking the hills together. "That is it. It doesn't look much like a dam, does it? But it is all hand-made.
Off to the right across a mud flat one of the dredges apparently had done just that: a swarm of men and natives were hard at work dragging it up again. Control Tower was to the left, balanced precariously at a slight tilt in a sea of mud. The Piper Venusian Installation didn't look too much like a going concern. It looked far more like a ghost town in the latter stages of decay.
The wind being from the southward, we were able, close-hauled, to stand up the Clyde. We passed Port Glasgow, which was at one time really the port of Glasgow; but the river having been deepened by dredges, vessels of large size can now run up to Glasgow itself.
"Why, she 's got four anchors out!" Joe exclaimed, at sight of four taut ropes entering the water almost horizontally from her bow. "Two of 'em 's dredges," 'Frisco Kid grinned; "and there goes the stove." As he spoke, two young fellows appeared on deck and dropped the cooking-stove overside with a line attached. "Phew!" 'Frisco Kid cried. "Look at Nelson.
In order that the work may be hurried, dredges are being brought across the Atlantic and, if necessary, harbour construction in the States will be curtailed. I was interested in the personnel employed in this work. Here, as elsewhere, I found that the engineering and organising brains of America are largely in France.
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