"The pipe running from the lower
part of the balloon runs into this cylindrical receptacle through the lower
plate; it penetrates the latter and then takes the form of a helicoidal or screw-shaped spiral, the rings of which, rising one over the other, occupy nearly the whole of the height of the tank.
country consists of clay-slat and sandstone, containing fossils, very closely related to, bu not identical with, those found in the Silurian formation of Europe; the hills are formed of white granular quart rock.
By the assistance of some rudely constructed machinery, the heavily laden basket was now carefully lowered
down among the multitude; and, from the giddy pinnacle, the Romans were seen gathering confusedly round it; but owing to the vast height and the prevalence of a fog, no distinct view of their operations could be obtained.
Beyond this front, is there to be a fair court, but three sides of it, of a far lower
building than the front.
Cedric darted at the speaker one of those hasty and impatient glances, which comparisons between the two rival nations seldom failed to call forth; but, recollecting the duties of hospitality, he suppressed further show of resentment, and, motioning with his hand, caused his guests to assume two seats a little lower
than his own, but placed close beside him, and gave a signal that the evening meal should be placed upon the board.
"Do you seriously mean that you intend to keep me shut up in this part of the house, at your will and pleasure?" I inquired, my heart sinking lower
at every word I spoke.
There once existed two currents: an upper one, long since recognised, which conveys the waters of the ocean into the basin of the Mediterranean; and a lower
counter-current, which reasoning has now shown to exist.
In this way, any person from the outside could have drawn back the bolt, and opened the door, and have dropped (or have been noiselessly lowered
by an accomplice) into the room--its height, as already observed, being only seven feet.
"The men of the lower
orders she often uses for various purposes of amusement.
Evidently the strange steamboat had lowered
I was obliged to exert the utmost care and caution, for in many places the road was not two yards wide, and often the lower
side of it sloped away in slanting precipices eight and even nine feet deep.
As the door had slipped aside I had noted its great thickness, fully twenty feet, and as it reached its place once more after closing behind us, great cylinders of steel had dropped from the ceiling behind it and fitted their lower
ends into apertures countersunk in the floor.