Certainly a Government might possess such a destructive machine.
ascertain the extent of the injury
to do neither more nor less than
two columns of water, projected by the mysterious object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air.
presence of an unknown sandbank
submitted to the intermittent eruption
had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia
Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times—rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length
long object, spindle–shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale.
