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Retzsch (1779-1857) : a well-known German painter and 

 engraver. 



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Teat- Act: an English statute of 1673. It compelled all 

 persons holding office under the crown to take the oaths of 

 supremacy and of allegiance, to receive the sacrament ac- 

 cording to the usage of the Church of England, and to sub- 

 scribe to the Declaration against Transubstantiation. 

 Poll: an abbreviation and transliteration of ol iro\\ot, "the 

 mob " ; university slang for the whole body of students tak- 

 ing merely the degree of Bachelor of Arts, at Cambridge, 

 pluck: the rejection of a student, after examinations, who 

 does not come up to the standard. 



ON A PIECE OF CHALK 



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On a Piece of Chalk : a lecture to working-men from Lay 

 Sermons, Addresses and Reviews. 



Needles of the Isle of Wight : the needles are three 

 white, pointed rocks of chalk, resting on dark-colored bases, 

 and rising abruptly from the sea to a height of 100 feet. 

 Baedeker's Great Britain. 



Lulworth in Dorset, to Flamborough Head: Lulworth 

 is on the southern coast of England, west of the Isle of 

 Wight: Flamborough Head is on the northeastern coast of 

 England and extends into \he German Ocean. 

 Weald : a name given to an oval-shaped chalk area in Eng- 

 land, beginning near the Straits of Dover, and extending into 

 the counties of Kent, Surrey, Hants, and Sussex. 



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Lieut. Brooke : Brooke devised an apparatus for deep-sea 

 sounding from which the weight necessary to sink the in- 

 strument rapidly, was detached when it reached the bottom. 

 The object was to relieve the strain on the rope caused by 

 rapid soundings. Improved apparatuses have been invented 

 since the time of Brooke. 



Ehrenberg (1795-1876): a German naturalist noted for his 

 studies of Infusoria. 



Bailey of West Point (1811-1857): an American natu- 

 ralist noted for Lis researches in microscopy, 

 enterprise of laying down the telegraph-cable: the 

 first Atlantic telegraph-cable between England and America 

 was laid in 1858 by Cyrus W. Field of New York. Messages 

 were sent over it for a few weeks; then it ceased to act. A 

 permanent cable was laid by Mr. Field in 1866. 



