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The explorers recognized on the opposite shore the point which they had visited on their descent from Mount Franklin.
But no signs of this were discovered, and the colonists continued to explore the bank, which, after a slight bend, descended parallel to the shore.
The intelligent animal went backwards and forwards on the shore, stopped suddenly, and looked at the water, one paw raised, as if he was pointing at some invisible game; then he barked furiously, and was suddenly silent.
Meanwhile Top had returned at his master's call, and had regained the shore: but he could not stay quiet; he plunged in among the tall grass, and guided by instinct, he appeared to follow some invisible being which was slipping along under the surface of the water.
The enormous animal rushed on the dog, who tried to escape by returning towards the shore.
Thrown in the air by some unknown power, he rose ten feet above the surface of the lake, fell again into the midst of the agitated waters, and then soon gained the shore, without any severe wounds, miraculously saved.
Therefore an explosive substance must be manufactured, which would make a deep trench in some other part of the shore.
No; for marine plants abounded on the shore, glass-wort, ficoides, and all those fucaceae which form wrack.
The next day, the 21st of May, at daybreak, the miners went to the point which formed the eastern shore of Lake Grant, and was only five hundred feet from the coast.
The hole was made on the point of the shore, slanting, so that it should meet a much lower level than that of the water of the lake.
In fact, the waterfall created by the explosion rendered the construction of two bridges necessary, one on Prospect Heights, the other on the shore.
Now the plateau and the shore were transversely divided by a watercourse, which had to be crossed to reach the northern part of the island.
The simplest thing was to establish on the plateau, and on the shore, two bridges from twenty to five and twenty feet in length.
The reporter was thus led to observe that if chance had thrown them at first on the shore, they would have had but a deplorable idea of their future domain.
There was certainly two feet of snow on the shore, but they were able to walk without much difficulty on the hardened surface.
All was white, from the summit of Mount Franklin to the shore, the forests, the plains, the lake, the river.
The ice melted, the snow disappeared; the shore, the plateau, the banks of the Mercy, the forest, again became practicable.
Did these men arrive here voluntarily or involuntarily, by disembarking on the shore or by being wrecked?
However, as the bank of trees hid the shore, it was possible that a vessel, especially if deprived of her masts, might lie close to the land and thus be invisible to Herbert.
While strolling along the shore about two miles from Granite House, Herbert and Neb were fortunate enough to capture a magnificent specimen of the order of chelonia.
Pencroft soon brought the canoe to the shore by a narrow passage among the rocks, and it was agreed that they should make a trial of the boat that day by following the shore as far as the first point at which the rocks of the south ended.
They pulled out about half a mile distant from the shore, that they might have a good view of Mount Franklin.
The boat then skirted the shore, which, extending to the extreme point, hid all Tadorn's Fens.
The canoe followed the windings of the shore, avoiding the rocks which fringed it, and which the rising tide began to cover.
"Pull to the shore, Pencroft!" said Cyrus.
A few strokes of the oar brought the canoe into a little creek, and its passengers leaped on shore.
Cyrus Harding and his companions looked attentively around them, and examined the shore for several hundred steps.
It was therefore agreed that the next morning at break of day, they should set out, by ascending the Mercy so as to reach the western shore.
At six in the morning the canoe put off from the shore; all had embarked, including Top, and they proceeded to the mouth of the Mercy.
From time to time, in certain places where the landing was easy, the canoe was stopped, when Gideon Spilett, Herbert, and Pencroft, their guns in their hands, and preceded by Top, jumped on shore.
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