Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 609
rest, many of you know. The Monitor, withtwo guns in a revolving turret, beat the Merrimackwith ten guns in a shed ; and when the news of herachievements was carried to Europe, it demon-strated to the cunning statesmen there that thebest of the new seventy-gun iron-clads might bebeaten by a two-gun… … THE DEVASTATION. of a truth taught by Faraday, that it is the best-acting thing, and not the best-looking thing, whichis of greatest service. i876.] TURRET-SIII PS AND TORPEDOES. 579 You can make a good model of her by taking alittle oval fig-box, painting it black, and sinking itin a basin until…
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