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THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. 



clothing with air, and thus be in a manner floated 

 against the overhanging sides of the ship and sus- 

 tained without any trouble. 



Tlie American monitor Miantonomoh returned from 

 Cronstadt seriously damaged ; the sailors of the 



Fig. 49, — Caulking a Ship while xinder Fail. 



American frigate Colorado repaired tlie vessel in 

 Cherbourg Koads, during rough weather, in the space 

 of five days. Cruising in the Mediterranean, the 

 same vessel received fresh damage in a pipe at the 



