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+\chapter{A Shifting Reef}
+
+The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious
+and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
+Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population
+and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents,
+seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors,
+captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America,
+naval officers\cite{article-full} of all countries, and the
+Governments of several States
+on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.
+
+For some time past vessels had been met by ``an enormous thing,''
+a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent,
+and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale.
+
+\section{This section is not in the original text, and we give it a very very long title. No, even longer than that.}
+
+Here, we're just exercising the gatech-thesis-losa.sty style, which
+helps create a List of Symbols or Abbreviations. To add an item to
+the \losa{LOSA}, you need to create an entry in the database file
+specified by the \texttt{\bs{}losafile} command. Then, use the
+\texttt{\bs{}losa\{\}} command within the bodytext. This will both
+typeset the symbol/abbreviation, and add its definition to the
+\losa{LOSA}. So, here are some bogus abbreviaions: We refer
+to \losa{VLSI} and to \losa{gnu} and various other things like
+\losa{neuroeng} and \losa{PE}s. Finally, you should be sure to read
+the \losa{losahang} note.
+
+\section{Another added section}
+
+Now, the List of Symbols or Abbreviations is different from a Glossary
+or List of Nomenclature. In the former, the description text is rigidly
+separate from the symbols themselves. In a glossary, since the items
+are typically longer, this kind of separation is impractical. Use the
+gatech-thesis-losa style and the \texttt{\bs{}losa\{\}} command for
+Lists of Symbols or Abbreviations; use the gatech-thesis-gloss style
+and the \texttt{\bs{}gloss\{\}} command for glossaries. Now, here's
+a few words to exercise the glossary: \gloss{reallylongword},
+\gloss{myelin}, \gloss{neuroeng}, and \gloss{frobozz}. Oh, and
+\gloss{glosshang}.
+
+\section{back to the original text}
+
+The facts relating to this apparition (entered in various log-books)
+agreed in most respects as to the shape of the object or creature in question,
+the untiring rapidity of its movements, its surprising power of locomotion,
+and the peculiar life with which it seemed endowed. If it was a whale,
+it surpassed in size all those hitherto classified in science.
+Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers
+times---rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object
+a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions
+which set it down as a mile in width and three in length---we might fairly
+conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions
+admitted by the learned ones of the day, if it existed at all.
+And that it DID exist was an undeniable fact; and, with that tendency
+which disposes the human mind in favour of the marvellous, we can understand
+the excitement produced in the entire world by this supernatural apparition.
+As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question.
+
+\section{Yet another section that's not really in the text}
+
+Here, we're testing the index stuff. The \texttt{@ sign}\index{\texttt{"@} sign}
+is one item. There's also the width of rules\index{dimensions!rule!width} and
+the color or weight of boxes\index{box!parameters}.
+PostScript\index{fonts!PostScript}
+is a font format. If I had more energy I could list the
+dimensions of a table\index{dimensions!table}, and talk about the height
+of a rule\index{dimensions!rule!height}.
+Then, there's the size of figures to worry about\index{dimensions!figure}
+and don't forget the \index*{box}. (See, here I used the starred from of
+\gtCom{index} like so:
+\verb+\index*{box}+
+and it typeset ``box'' for me.
+Now, usually you don't want the starred version of the
+\gtCom{index} command---it's only useful for single level index entries
+(that is, those that don't have a `!' character in them, because \gtCom{index*}
+will typeset the whole thing, like this:
+\verb+\index*{foo!bar}+
+gives \index*{foo!bar}. Silly.
+
+Here's a fun one: \LaTeX{}\index{LaTeX@\LaTeX{} program} (here I
+used the \@ symbol in the \texttt{\bs{}index} command, because I
+wanted to alphabetize \LaTeX{} as LaTeX, and not as a symbol.
+So, I used this command:
+\texttt{\bs{}LaTeX\{\}\linebreak[0]{}\bs{}index\{\linebreak[0]{}LaTeX@\linebreak[0]{}\bs{}LaTeX\{\} program\}}.
+\comment{note that I did NOT use the \verb+x+ command above; verb typesets
+in an mbox which cannot be broken across lines, and that command is too
+long to place on one line or the other. By hand-escaping the backslash and brace characters, the text can be broken across lines with a liberal application of linebreak commands}
+Now, a few more index entries: Computer Modern\index{fonts!Computer Modern}
+is a font. We can also talk of the size of boxes\index{box!dimensions of}
+and the depth\index{rule!depth} and \index{rule!width} of rules. Also,
+let's try to reference the PostScript\index{fonts!PostScript} fonts again.
+Note that the starred form of \texttt{\bs{}index} is unique to the
+\texttt{index.sty} package, on which the \texttt{gatech-thesis-index.sty}
+package is built. The starred \texttt{\bs{}index} is not available in
+``normal'' \LaTeX.
+
+\section{Back to the real text}
+
+\begin{equation}
+E=mc^2
+\end{equation}
+
+On the 20th of July, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson,
+of the Calcutta and Burnach Steam Navigation Company, had met
+this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia.
+Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an
+unknown sandbank; he even prepared to determine its exact position
+when two columns of water, projected by the mysterious object,
+shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air.
+Now, unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent
+eruption of a geyser, the Governor Higginson had to do neither
+more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then,
+which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with
+air and vapour.\cite{inbook-full}\cite{book-full}
+
+Similar facts were observed on the 23rd of July in the same year,
+in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India
+and Pacific Steam Navigation Company. But this extraordinary
+creature could transport itself from one place to another
+with surprising velocity; as, in an interval of three days,
+the Governor Higginson and the Columbus had observed it at
+two different points of the chart, separated by a distance
+of more than seven hundred nautical leagues.
+
+\section{extra section marker}
+
+Fifteen days later, two thousand miles farther off, the Helvetia,
+of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shannon, of the Royal
+Mail Steamship Company, sailing to windward in that portion
+of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe,
+respectively signalled the monster to each other in 42@ 15' N. lat.
+and 60@ 35' W. long. In these simultaneous observations they
+thought themselves justified in estimating the minimum length
+of the mammal at more than three hundred and fifty feet,
+as the Shannon and Helvetia were of smaller dimensions than it,
+though they measured three hundred feet over all.
+
+Now the largest whales, those which frequent those parts of the sea round
+the Aleutian, Kulammak, and Umgullich islands, have never exceeded the length
+of sixty yards, if they attain that.
+
+\begin{equation}
+E=mc^2
+\end{equation}
+
+In every place of great resort the monster was the fashion.
+They sang of it in the cafes, ridiculed it in the papers, and represented
+it on the stage. All kinds of stories were circulated regarding it.
+There appeared in the papers caricatures of every gigantic and
+imaginary creature, from the white whale, the terrible ``Moby Dick''
+of sub-arctic regions, to the immense kraken, whose tentacles could entangle
+a ship of five hundred tons and hurry it into the abyss of the ocean.
+The legends of ancient times were even revived.
+
+Then burst forth the unending argument between the believers and the
+unbelievers in the societies of the wise and the scientific journals.
+``The question of the monster'' inflamed all minds. Editors of
+scientific journals, quarrelling with believers in the supernatural,
+spilled seas of ink during this memorable campaign, some even drawing blood;
+for from the sea-serpent they came to direct personalities.
+
+\section{another section marker}
+
+During the first months of the year 1867 the question seemed buried,
+never to revive, when new facts were brought before the public.
+It was then no longer a scientific problem to be solved, but a real
+danger seriously to be avoided. The question took quite another shape.
+The monster became a small island, a rock, a reef, but a reef of indefinite
+and shifting proportions.
+
+\subsection{a subsection marker}
+
+On the 5th of March, 1867, the Moravian, of the Montreal Ocean Company,
+finding herself during the night in 27@ 30' lat. and 72@ 15' long., struck
+on her starboard quarter a rock, marked in no chart for that part of the sea.
+Under the combined efforts of the wind and its four hundred horse power,
+it was going at the rate of thirteen knots. Had it not been for the superior
+strength of the hull of the Moravian, she would have been broken by the shock
+and gone down with the 237 passengers she was bringing home from Canada.
+
+The accident happened about five o'clock in the morning, as the day
+was breaking. The officers of the quarter-deck hurried to the after-part
+of the vessel. They examined the sea with the most careful attention.
+They saw nothing but a strong eddy about three cables' length distant,
+as if the surface had been violently agitated. The bearings of the place were
+taken exactly, and the Moravian continued its route without apparent damage.
+Had it struck on a submerged rock, or on an enormous wreck? They could
+not tell; but, on examination of the ship's bottom when undergoing repairs,
+it was found that part of her keel was broken.
+
+\subsection{another subsection}
+
+This fact, so grave in itself, might perhaps have been forgotten
+like many others if, three weeks after, it had not been re-enacted
+under similar circumstances. But, thanks to the nationality of
+the victim of the shock, thanks to the reputation of the company to
+which the vessel belonged, the circumstance became extensively circulated.
+
+The 13th of April, 1867, the sea being beautiful, the breeze favourable,
+the Scotia, of the Cunard Company's line, found herself in 15@ 12' long.
+and 45@ 37' lat. She was going at the speed of thirteen knots and a half.
+
+At seventeen minutes past four in the afternoon, whilst the passengers were
+assembled at lunch in the great saloon, a slight shock was felt on the hull
+of the Scotia, on her quarter, a little aft of the port-paddle.
+
+\begin{figure}%
+ \centering
+ \includegraphics[width=100bp]{jules-verne-test}%
+ \caption[A test figure. This is a test figure inserted into this text. This is a test figure inserted into this text. This is a test figure inserted into this text.]
+ {This is a test figure inserted into this text.}%
+ \label{fig:test1}%
+\end{figure}
+
+The Scotia had not struck, but she had been struck, and seemingly
+by something rather sharp and penetrating than blunt.
+The shock had been so slight that no one had been alarmed,
+had it not been for the shouts of the carpenter's watch,
+who rushed on to the bridge, exclaiming, ``We are sinking! we
+are sinking!'' At first the passengers were much frightened,
+but Captain Anderson hastened to reassure them. The danger could
+not be imminent. The Scotia, divided into seven compartments
+by strong partitions, could brave with impunity any leak.
+Captain Anderson went down immediately into the hold.
+He found that the sea was pouring into the fifth compartment;
+and the rapidity of the influx proved that the force of the water
+was considerable. Fortunately this compartment did not hold
+the boilers, or the fires would have been immediately extinguished.
+Captain Anderson ordered the engines to be stopped at once,
+and one of the men went down to ascertain the extent of the injury.
+Some minutes afterwards they discovered the existence of a
+large hole, two yards in diameter, in the ship's bottom.
+Such a leak could not be stopped; and the Scotia, her paddles
+half submerged, was obliged to continue her course. She was then
+three hundred miles from Cape Clear, and, after three days' delay,
+which caused great uneasiness in Liverpool, she entered the basin
+of the company.
+
+\subsubsection{a subsubsection with a really really really really really really really really really really long title. I mean a really really really really really really really really really really long title. No, even longer than that.}
+
+The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dry dock.
+They could scarcely believe it possible; at two yards and a half below
+water-mark was a regular rent, in the form of an isosceles triangle.
+The broken place in the iron plates was so perfectly defined
+that it could not have been more neatly done by a punch.
+It was clear, then, that the instrument producing the perforation
+was not of a common stamp and, after having been driven with
+prodigious strength, and piercing an iron plate 1 3/8 inches thick,
+had withdrawn itself by a backward motion.
+
+\subsubsection{a subsubsection with shorter title}
+
+Such was the last fact, which resulted in exciting once more the torrent
+of public opinion. From this moment all unlucky casualties which could
+not be otherwise accounted for were put down to the monster.
+
+\section{a final section}
+
+Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all
+these shipwrecks, which unfortunately were considerable;
+for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded
+at Lloyd's, the number of sailing and steam-ships supposed
+to be totally lost, from the absence of all news, amounted to
+not less than two hundred!
+
+Now, it was the ``monster'' who, justly or unjustly, was accused
+of their disappearance, and, thanks to it, communication between
+the different continents became more and more dangerous.
+The public demanded sharply that the seas should at any price be
+relieved from this formidable cetacean.\footnote{Member of the whale family.}
+