Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 634
coffer-dam, we hadto remove two of the cylinders. Then we real-ized what the barnacles had done to the piling.We had to batter the piles with a steam-hammerbefore they would budge. I need not tell you about how the Maine wasburied at sea with honors. You must have readabout that. But a rather… … THE AFTER PORTION OF THE MAINE FLOATED OUT OF THE COFFER-DAMAND READY TO BE BURIED AT SEA WITH HONORS. depth to which the harbor was to be cleared. Itwas a pretty heavy piece to raise, so what didthey do but bury it. A trench was dredgedaround it, undermining it as much as possible,so that it must…
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