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Page 76
... means of artificial breakwaters and piers . This is especially the case in the channel which separates England from France . On the English side nature has formed several very good harbors on the French side none . The government of ...
... means of artificial breakwaters and piers . This is especially the case in the channel which separates England from France . On the English side nature has formed several very good harbors on the French side none . The government of ...
Page 77
... means of dredging machines . There are also usually two large ba- sins excavated at the inner end of the piers , near the town . Of these two basins one is kept always full , by means of prodigious gates , which are never opened to let ...
... means of dredging machines . There are also usually two large ba- sins excavated at the inner end of the piers , near the town . Of these two basins one is kept always full , by means of prodigious gates , which are never opened to let ...
Page 80
... means of ar- tificial piers on the French side of the channel are wholly insufficient , as has already been said , for the purposes of men of war . For these an extensive anchorage ground is required , freely accessible at all times ...
... means of ar- tificial piers on the French side of the channel are wholly insufficient , as has already been said , for the purposes of men of war . For these an extensive anchorage ground is required , freely accessible at all times ...
Page 83
... means of the breakwater , the government next made a vast excavation within the land , for a floating dock , with immense ship - yards and arsenals ad- joining it , for the construction and fitting out of ships of war . It was necessary ...
... means of the breakwater , the government next made a vast excavation within the land , for a floating dock , with immense ship - yards and arsenals ad- joining it , for the construction and fitting out of ships of war . It was necessary ...
Page 96
... means of bridges , made to be easily taken away in case the fortification should be attacked - and at length they passed by the last sentinel , and found them- selves outside the walls . They were , however , not yet in the open field ...
... means of bridges , made to be easily taken away in case the fortification should be attacked - and at length they passed by the last sentinel , and found them- selves outside the walls . They were , however , not yet in the open field ...
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Page 43 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 33 - Lord ivas with me and made all things easy, though my dear friend and I were separated one at one end of the town and the other at the other, and both under locks and bolts ; the said Davis swearing desperately that we should never come out nor see one another again all his time. And yet in two weeks' time he let me out again and her also.
Page 183 - Grimkie said that the best thing they could do would be to go and see the Castle of Mont Orgueil.
Page 193 - Florence established herself upon the sofa, and the two boys in arm-chairs near the fire, each with a large slice of bread and butter in one hand and a piece of cheese in the other, and their tumblers of milk on corners of the table within reach.
Page 69 - There was a large table in the middle of the room, with broad boxes filled with laces upon it, and other boxes in cases about the room.
Page 80 - ... strongly support Senator Mitchell's bill, S. 1639. The establishment of a Board such as is proposed in your bill is vitally necessary in the interest of military and commercial expansion of our national air power. If is an open secret that in the 1930's technological improvements placed German air power far in advance of that of any other nation in the world, and the stern necessity of mastering that power, rather than our own foresight, was the determining factor in World War II. Certainly,...