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How to Live Under

WATER.

IGHT down to the bot- is well protected from the water, while at tom of the sea you the same time there is a contrivance which could go as if you enables him to breathe freely. Fresh air were a fish, and is forced down to him from above, and could live there unless some unusual accident happens to without much in- him he can be brought up to the surface convenience. The when he wishes. The principle of the Diving Bell would Diving Bell is seen in pressing any vessel enable you to do like a tumbler mouth downward in the this. It is one of the most water. The air within the vessel prevents curious contrivances, as well the water from rising and filling it, but it as one of the most useful is made to occupy less space as the pres- By the aid of it, men can descend sure is increased with the increasing into the sea and explore wrecks depth of the water. of vessels, gather coral and During the reign of Charles V a satis... pearls, and also sea-weeds, those factory experiment was tried by two beautiful flowers of the ocean, Greeks, at Toledo, in Spain, in the pressome of which are as lovely as ence of the monarch and his court, of descending in a large inverted kettle into the water with a burning light, and coming up dry. But in this experiment, made any to be found in fields or gardens.

The Diving Bell is a hollow vessel in the shape of a bell, and the person inside (268)