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Updated: June 18, 2025
Here were stowed the dredges and buoys and all the gear belonging to them, trawl nets and deep sea traps, cable and spare rope and sounding-wire, harpoons and grancs and a hundred odds and ends, all in order and spick and span as the gear of a warship. Aft of the engine-room the yacht was a little palace.
I have telegraphed for a lot of sounding-wire, and I must wait until it shall arrive before I do anything more." "You must be very, very careful, Roland, when you are doing that work," said Margaret. "Suppose you should fall in!" "I have provided against that," said he. "I have laid a floor over the hole with only a small opening in it, so there is no danger.
"It did not melt my lead or my sounding-wire," said he. And as he said these words her heart fell. The temperature of this great perforation was taken at many points, and when Roland brought to Margaret the statement of the height of the mercury at the very bottom she was astounded and shocked to find that it was only eighty-three degrees. "This is terrible!" she ejaculated.
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