18 Life Beneath the Waves. 



those of the first, and at the end are the 

 engine rooms, for pumps and machinery, 

 boilers, &c., also naturalists' rooms. 



Underneath the corridors are large re- 

 servoirs for containing a supply of sea- 

 water ; each reservoir communicates with 

 the others, and with a well in the engine 

 room. The pumps raise the water from 

 this well to an upper reservoir, which has 

 a pipe communication to every tank, to 

 admit the flow of water at any required 

 rate. A stand-pipe in each tank regulates 

 the height for the water, by permitting its 

 escape at the top, finding its way to the 

 lower reservoir by earthenware pipes, to be 

 re-used again thus keeping the water in 

 a perpetual flow from one end of the 

 building to the other. 



And now, having detailed the leading 

 features of the interior of the Brighton 



