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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/gatech-thesis/julesverne/basic/jules-verne-chapter1.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/gatech-thesis/julesverne/basic/jules-verne-chapter1.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0b446094d62 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/gatech-thesis/julesverne/basic/jules-verne-chapter1.tex @@ -0,0 +1,209 @@ +\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{Add a section marker here} + +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{Add another section marker} + +\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.} + |