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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.}
-