Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 26
ached 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, set… … A GLl.MlsL INTO THE W UKLU \VI lUOLT A SUN.589 59° IN THE WORLD WITHOUT A SUN. (May, 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 Hke a pancake. The Petrel was not only a sounder,…
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