floating bravely. From a cleft in the rock strong but slender bamboo rods which strikes a gong. A number of these buoys are used in project out over the water, to the extremity of each of which The poor cormorants look drenched enough as they sit is attached an otter by an iron chain fastened to… … 14,898 feet above the sea level. It is de- dollar by the sale of them. CATOR’S FOG ALARM BUOY. scribed as ‘‘the culmination point of an im- The cormorants are captured when young, and are kept in wild, marshy places, fenced mense pile of granite, which is cut almost to leather thongs round the…
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