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rd slowly and stubbornly rise on its side, and be forced to a
tilon of unstable equilibrium ; then everyone, except the men
he chain blocks down at the foot of the hill would stand aside.
ew more pulls on these, then cable and th chain straps would
ken, the top of the meteorite would mov almost imperce
forward, the stones under the edge of olution would be n
splinter and crumble, then, amidst the housts of the nati
our owner pressed breathing, the hon Alouptain WOL d
over. When it struck the ground the harder rocks WOL d
elicit streams of
sparks from its
brown surface be-
fore they crumbled
the softer oneswould
dissolve dust
and smoke, and the
giant would b1 y
itself half its depth
in the earth with the
slow, resistless mo-
tion of a hydraulic
punch cutting cold
iron, then lumge sud-
denly forward a few
feet, throwing up a
dam of earth and
stones before it like
the terminal mo-
raine of a glacier,
Arrived at the bot-
tom of the slope, the
meteorite was again
lifted upon the rails
and timbers, and
slowly and labor-
iously pushed for-
ward towards the
edge of the pier.
Never have I had
the terrific n
ROAD FOR THE METEORITE.
of the force of
ity and the mean
momentum' and inertia U.SO powerfully broug
as in handling this mountain of iron. No pur