Abstract
Abstract If you should happen to be on the banks of the Port Adelaide River when a boat of the “B.I.” line comes slowly into port, you will hear a coloured seaman calling the depths as he casts a sounding lead. This is a relic of an old established branch of surveying, at least 2,000 years old. In the account of Paul's shipwreck in The Bible, it states that, driven by storm during the night, they took a sounding of twenty fathoms, a little later one of fifteen fathoms, and, fearing they would strike a rock, dropped four stern anchors. These soundings are said to agree with the latest Admiralty charts.
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