Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 502
difficult piece of work, too; butit was a mere peanut-shell to this one. Why, boy,this coffer-dam is the biggest and deepest theworld has ever seen. It uncovers a space three does nt matter whether we have a stream fivefeet wide, or a sound five miles wide, or an oceanfive thousand miles wide… … Ciirtesj ul Stientific Americnii. THE PIKKS FOR THOUSAND-FOOT SHIPS, AS THRV WILL LOOK WHEN COMPLETED. hundred feet wide by eight hundred feet longand at least forty feet deep below water-level atlow tide; and at the toe of the dam we haveto go down sixty-eight feet below high-tide levelbefore we…
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