CHAPTER 17

Visit to the Lake—The indicating Current—Cyrus Harding’s Projects—The Fat of the Dugong—Employing Shistose Pyrites— Sulphate of Iron—How Glycerine is made—Soap—Saltpetre— Sulphuric Acid—Azotic Acid—The new Fall. The next day, the 7th of May, Harding and Gideon Spilett, leaving Neb to prepare breakfast, climbed Prospect Heights, while Herbert and Pencroft ascended by the river, to renew their store of wood. The engineer and the reporter soon reached the little beach on which the dugong had been strand…