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 1 VII |   replied the major; “but what metal do you calculate upon employing?”~“
 2 VII |   puzzled air.~“Employ another metal instead of iron.”~“Copper?”
 3 VII |      my friends. This valuable metal possesses the whiteness
 4 VIII|    take into consideration the metal to be employed. Our cannon
 5 VIII|  employ an immense quantity of metal, we shall not be at a loss
 6 VIII|       thickness of six feet of metal.”~“In a moment,” replied
 7 X   |   projectiles knocked his best metal plate to shivers.~Matters
 8 XI  |        fifty per cent. of pure metal.~To this the American Review
 9 XV  |        white description. This metal, in fact, is the most tenacious,
10 XV  |      this first operation, the metal was sent on to Stones Hill.
11 XV  |  January this enormous mass of metal was delivered at its destination.~
12 XV  |       140,000 pounds weight of metal. They were all built after
13 XV  |        25 degrees, allowed the metal to flow into the receiving
14 XV  |    trenches carried the molten metal down to the central well.~
15 XV  |        filled up by the molten metal, which would thus form the
16 XV  |      be buried in the block of metal, leaving no external projection.~
17 XV  |       July, and the run of the metal was fixed for the following
18 XV  |       114,000 pounds weight of metal in bars disposed cross-ways
19 XV  |  tremblings. As many pounds of metal as there were to cast, so
20 XV  |   midday the first driblets of metal began to flow; the reservoirs
21 XV  |        whole Niagara of molten metal!~
22 XVI |      entire mass of the molten metal; still some considerable
23 XVI |    bottom of that long tube of metal! They were half suffocated.
24 XIX |       molecules of the densest metal, such as silver, iron, or
25 I   | hermetically enclosed in their metal prison, were plunged in
26 II  |   projectile nothing now but a metal coffin, bearing three corpses
27 II  |     have been reflected on the metal walls, which reflection
28 VI  |        after having struck the metal plate; it is its motion
29 XV  |     reserved for them in their metal prison which was bearing
30 XVII|         which soon pierced the metal walls. The glass resumed
31 XXI |      while below them opened a metal well terminated by the metallic
32 XXI |   imprudently leaning over the metal tube, had disappeared in
33 XXI |       T. Maston, caught by his metal hook, was holding on by
34 XXII|    miles under the ocean, this metal prison defied every effort