23 he went back to his story:--
It took us many days, one or two of our months, to
adjust ourselves to our new condition. Our greatest
grief is that we are not on the meridian. Do you know
why?"
Loyal George! He was willing to exile himself and
his race from the most of mankind, if only the great
purpose of his life could be fulfilled. But his great
regret was that it was not fulfilled. He was not on the
meridian. I did not know why. But Haliburton, with
infinite labor, spelt out on the Flat,
CYC. PROJECT. AD FIN.,
by which he meant, "See article Projectiles in the
Cyclopaedia at the end"; and there indeed is the only
explanation to be given. When you fire a shot, why
does it ever go to the right or left of the plane in
which it is projected? Dr. Hutton ascribes it to a
whirling motion acquired by the bullet by friction
with the gun. Euler thinks it due chiefly to the
irregularity of the shape of the ball. In our case the
B. M. was regular enough. But on one side, being
wholly unprepared for flight, she was heavily stored
with pork and corn, while her other chambers had in
some of them heavy drifts of snow, and some only a few
men and women and hens.
Before Orcutt saw Haliburton's advice, he had sent us
24 and 25.
24. "We have established a Sandemanian church, and
Brannan preaches.
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