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Page 56 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 147 - I'll shew you, sir. It is an automa, runs under water, With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles Betwixt the costs of a ship, and sinks it straight.
Page 166 - ... of the shells at the head of the animal. The inside was capable of containing the operator and air sufficient to support him thirty minutes without receiving fresh air.
Page 155 - Tis private. A man may thus go to any coast of the world invisibly, without being discovered or prevented in his journey. (2) Tis safe from the uncertainty of tides, and the violence of tempests, which do never move the sea above five or six paces deep ; from pirates and robbers which do so infest other voyages; from ice and great frosts which do so much endanger the passages towards the Poles.
Page 70 - When the skilful operator had obtained an equilibrium, he could row upward, or downward, or continue at any particular depth, with an oar, placed near the top of the vessel, formed upon the principle of the screw, the axis of the oar entering the vessel; by turning the oar one way he raised the vessel, by turning it the other way he depressed it.
Page 5 - What the future value of these boats may be in naval warfare can only be a matter of conjecture. The experiments with these boats will assist the Admiralty in assessing their true value. The question of their employment must be studied, and all developments in their mechanism carefully watched by this country.
Page 169 - The airpipes li nl a kind of hollow sphere fixed round the top- of each to secure the airpipe valves from injury : these hollow spheres were perforated full of holes for the passage of the air through the pipes : within the air-pipes were shutters to secure them, should any accident happen to the pipes or the valves on their tops. Wherever the external apparatus passed through the body of the vessel, the joints were round, and formed by brass pipes, which were driven into the wood of the vessel,...
Page 195 - ... war, when I was at Charleston, meeting in a coffee-room at that place a young naval officer (a Southerner), with whom I got into conversation. He told me that that night he was going to sink a Northern man-of-war which was blockading the port, and invited me to see him off. I accompanied him down to his cigarboat, as he called it, and found that she was a vessel about forty feet long, shaped like a cigar, on the bow of which was placed a torpedo. On his stepping on board with his crew of four...
Page xvii - Pitt was the greatest fool that ever existed, to encourage a mode of war which they who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would deprive them of it.
Page 145 - Chymists speak) or spirituous part of it, that makes it fit for respiration ; which being spent, the remaining grosser body, or carcase, if I may so call it, of the air, is unable to cherish the vital flame residing in the heart...