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they described consecutive circles, examining the 

 ground at each step. After seeking three hours, the 

 gold was found and restored to its owner, who had 

 watched the operations with intense anxiety. This 

 tealvage was effected on February 19, 1867, by 

 M. Barbotin, contractor for submarine work at Mar- 

 beilles." 



3. Gowan's Salvage of Ruasinn Yessebi in Sevastopol Haibour. 



An American engineer, named Gowan, has recently 

 effected a much more important salvage, by ex- 

 plorations of the bottom of the sea of greater mag- 

 nitude than had ever been attempted before. Prince 

 Mentschikoif, closely besieged in Sebastopol by the 

 Anglo-French army, perceiving that the weak point 

 of the fortified town was its roadstead, and that the 

 enemy's fleet was about to force an entrance, sank a 

 line of ships and frigates in the passage between 

 Forts Catherine and Alexander. A second line of 

 vessels was sunk to fill the gaps created in this sub- 

 marine barrier by the autumn storms. At last, when 

 the hour for the llussian retreat had arrived, he dis 

 appointed his conquerors by sinking all that remained 

 of the fleet, with the exception of a few solitary barks, 

 in the bay, the muddy bottom of which was now the 

 bed of at least 100 vessels, representing in value 

 8omo fourteen millions sterling. 



