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Ch. XLVII.] HIS WORKS IN SUBAQUEOUS STEATA. 



, 545 



Eoval Cabinet at Paris. 



Muse 



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M. KoniP", tlie rock in 



a 



wliicli the former is enclosed is harder under the mason's saw 

 and chisel than statuary marble. It is described as formino- 

 kind of glacis, probably an indurated beach, which slants 

 from the steep cliffs of the island to the sea, and is nearly 

 all submerged at high tide. 



Number of wreched vessels. — Wlienwe reflect on the number 

 of curious monuments cons 



from 



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lasting memorials which man is leaving of his labours. 



During 



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our last great 



struggle with Trance, thirty-two of 

 our ships of the line went to the bottom in the space of 

 twenty-two years, besides seven 50-gun ships, eighty-six 

 frigates, and a multitude of smaller vessels. The navies of 



the other European powers, 



Holland, Spain, and 



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Denmark, were almost annihilated during the same period, 



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many 



exceeded that of Great Britain. In every one of these ships 

 were batteries of cannon constructed of iron or brass, whereof 



es and places of their manu- 



number 



them 



metal 



In 



each there were coins of copper, silver, and often manj 

 of gold, capable of serving as valuable historical 



monu 



instruments 



many 



as glass and earthenware, capable of lasting for indefinite 



H-" ..xxv.ix wi±v.c removed 



mass of matter which may 



the corroding action of sea-water. The quantity, moreover, 



from 



sea by the sinking of ships of a large size is enormous ; for 

 it is computed that 2,000 tons of wood are required for the 

 building of one 74-gun ship ; and reckoning fifty oaks of 

 100 years' growth to the acre, it would require forty acres of 



oak forest to build one of these vessels.^" 



VOL. II. 



* Quart. Journ. of Agricult., No. ix. p, 433 



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