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Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New England -- History
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e, and the prisonerplunged down into the well and was drowned. Iron of exceptionally fine quaHty was early dis-covered at Salisbury in the northwestern part of thestate. The deposits were abundant, and the supply ofwood, then the universal fuel, was plentiful. For a longtime the making of nails from this iron was the prin-cipal home industry of the Connecticut colonists.Much of the iron used for the weapons of the Revolu-tion came from there. Cannon were made from it for Industry in Connecticut 179 the army and navy, barrels for the muskets, andheavy chains to bar the rivers. In this vicinity is Bear Mountain, the highest pointin Connecticut. Its summit is 2355 feet above the sealevel. One of the first of Connecticuts inventors to winfame was David Bushnell, who was born on his fathersfarm in the little coast town of Westbrook. He pre-pared for college after he reached manhood, enteredYale at the age of twenty-nine, and graduated just asthe Revolution was beginning. Then he turned his
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Bear Mountain, the highest in Connecticut attention to making what was a forerunner of thesubmarine. He called it the American Turtle. It i8o New England was seven and one half feet long and nearly as wide,and there was just space enough inside to contain oneman. The man propelled it by working paddles withhis feet. Under the keel was ballast which could belowered to act as an anchor. A compass was carriedto aid in steering, and a barometer to determine thedepth below the surface. The boat could be madeto descend by admitting water through a valve, andto rise by expelling the water with a pump. Thesupply of air was sufficient to last the man half anhour. There were windows of heavy glass, and phos-phorus was used to obtain additional light. At thestern, above the rudder, was a receptacle which con-tained one hundred and fifty pounds of powder. Thiscould be attached to the bottom of a ship, and amechanism inside exploded the powder after a certaininterval. The inventor thought the enti

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