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! caught in the streams of the Alps in a very 
I original manner. The implements are a heavy 
j knife or bill, and a lantern of curious construc- 
I tion. It consists of a hollow globe of horn, to 
which is affixed a steel tube three feet long, and 
! an inch and a half in diameter. The junction of 
S the tube and the globe being hermetically sealed, 
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the oiled wick within the latter, after having been 
lighted, receives air only from the top of the tube. 
The mountaineer, thus furnished, wades into the 
torrents that brawl through the valleys, hy nighty 
until the water reaches his middle. With his 
left hand he plunges the globe of the lantern 
towards the bottom to nearly the full length of 
