Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 34
attached to its end,,and when bottom was reached this weightcame off automatically and stayed down for-ever. Here and there above the weight in-struments were attached. One of them was athermometer, which did not act until it waswithin three feet of the bottom. Then it regis-tered the temperature,… … A GLIMPSE INTO THE WORLD WITHOUT A SUN.589 59Q IN THE WORLD WITHOUT A SUN. registered the pressure of the water; some-times it was as high as eight thousand poundsto the square inch. That pressure, said the professor, wouldthin a man out like a pancake. The Petrel was not only a sounder, but…
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