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HISTORY OF THE SEA. 



to be full of jewels, necklaces, ear-rings, and pearls of great 

 value. Being left for a moment on the deck of the salvage 

 schooner, it disappeared, and the second searc l for it has 

 proved more fruitless than the first. 



During the Crimean war, a line of ships and frigates was 

 sunk by the Russians in the harbor* of Sebastop I, in the pas- 

 sage between forts Catharine and Alexander. When forced 

 to leave the town, others remaining in the harbor were sunk, 

 o that at least 100 vessels, representing an estimated value of 

 between fifty and sixty millions of dollars, were sunk. To 

 prevent if possible the action of the sea upon their machinery 



SALVAGE OF RUSSIAN SHIPS SUNK AT SEBASTOPOL. 



and metallic portions, these were covered with tar or tallow. 

 When the war was over, an American engineer, named 

 Go wan, went to Russia and undertook the job of raising these 

 vessels, after having gone down himself in a diving suit, 



