The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 224
fore,despite the fact that deep-sea fishing had beengoing on for years, so vast is the ocean floor andso innumerable the varieties of the inhabitants, drifted on the current, and after a while thestrain was put on and the drums began to turnslowly in the uplift. At first the enginesgroaned, because… … with the most wonderful squirming orflapping things. Never a man in his wild-est dreams had such visions as those whichconfronted the watchers on the Petrelsdeck. Bob got an object-lesson one day in themeaning of sea-pressure. The sounding-wirehad been let down, with a hollow metal sphereattached…
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