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The
same
evening
Barbicane
and
his
companions
returned
to
Tampa
Town
;
and
Murchison
,
the
engineer
,
re-embarked
on
board
the
Tampico
for
New
Orleans
.
His
object
was
to
enlist
an
army
of
workmen
,
and
to
collect
together
the
greater
part
of
the
materials
.
The
members
of
the
Gun
Club
remained
at
Tampa
Town
,
for
the
purpose
of
setting
on
foot
the
preliminary
works
by
the
aid
of
the
people
of
the
country
.
Eight
days
after
its
departure
,
the
Tampico
returned
into
the
bay
of
Espiritu
Santo
,
with
a
whole
flotilla
of
steamboats
.
Murchison
had
succeeded
in
assembling
together
fifteen
hundred
artisans
.
Attracted
by
the
high
pay
and
considerable
bounties
offered
by
the
Gun
Club
,
he
had
enlisted
a
choice
legion
of
stokers
,
iron-founders
,
lime-burners
,
miners
,
brickmakers
,
and
artisans
of
every
trade
,
without
distinction
of
color
.
As
many
of
these
people
brought
their
families
with
them
,
their
departure
resembled
a
perfect
emigration
.
On
the
31st
of
October
,
at
ten
o'clock
in
the
morning
,
the
troop
disembarked
on
the
quays
of
Tampa
Town
;
and
one
may
imagine
the
activity
which
pervaded
that
little
town
,
whose
population
was
thus
doubled
in
a
single
day
.
During
the
first
few
days
they
were
busy
discharging
the
cargo
brought
by
the
flotilla
,
the
machines
,
and
the
rations
,
as
well
as
a
large
number
of
huts
constructed
of
iron
plates
,
separately
pieced
and
numbered
.
At
the
same
period
Barbicane
laid
the
first
sleepers
of
a
railway
fifteen
miles
in
length
,
intended
to
unite
Stones
Hill
with
Tampa
Town
.
On
the
first
of
November
Barbicane
quitted
Tampa
Town
with
a
detachment
of
workmen
;
and
on
the
following
day
the
whole
town
of
huts
was
erected
round
Stones
Hill
.
This
they
enclosed
with
palisades
;
and
in
respect
of
energy
and
activity
,
it
might
have
been
mistaken
for
one
of
the
great
cities
of
the
Union
.
Everything
was
placed
under
a
complete
system
of
discipline
,
and
the
works
were
commenced
in
most
perfect
order
.
The
nature
of
the
soil
having
been
carefully
examined
,
by
means
of
repeated
borings
,
the
work
of
excavation
was
fixed
for
the
4th
of
November
.
On
that
day
Barbicane
called
together
his
foremen
and
addressed
them
as
follows
:
"
You
are
well
aware
,
my
friends
,
of
the
object
with
which
I
have
assembled
you
together
in
this
wild
part
of
Florida
.
Our
business
is
to
construct
a
cannon
measuring
nine
feet
in
its
interior
diameter
,
six
feet
thick
,
and
with
a
stone
revetment
of
nineteen
and
a
half
feet
in
thickness
.
We
have
,
therefore
,
a
well
of
sixty
feet
in
diameter
to
dig
down
to
a
depth
of
nine
hundred
feet
.
This
great
work
must
be
completed
within
eight
months
,
so
that
you
have
2,543,400
cubic
feet
of
earth
to
excavate
in
255
days
;
that
is
to
say
,
in
round
numbers
,
2,000
cubic
feet
per
day
.
That
which
would
present
no
difficulty
to
a
thousand
navvies
working
in
open
country
will
be
of
course
more
troublesome
in
a
comparatively
confined
space
.
However
,
the
thing
must
be
done
,
and
I
reckon
for
its
accomplishment
upon
your
courage
as
much
as
upon
your
skill
.
"
At
eight
o'clock
the
next
morning
the
first
stroke
of
the
pickaxe
was
struck
upon
the
soil
of
Florida
;
and
from
that
moment
that
prince
of
tools
was
never
inactive
for
one
moment
in
the
hands
of
the
excavators
.
The
gangs
relieved
each
other
every
three
hours
.
On
the
4th
of
November
fifty
workmen
commenced
digging
,
in
the
very
center
of
the
enclosed
space
on
the
summit
of
Stones
Hill
,
a
circular
hole
sixty
feet
in
diameter
.
The
pickaxe
first
struck
upon
a
kind
of
black
earth
,
six
inches
in
thickness
,
which
was
speedily
disposed
of
.
To
this
earth
succeeded
two
feet
of
fine
sand
,
which
was
carefully
laid
aside
as
being
valuable
for
serving
the
casting
of
the
inner
mould
.
After
the
sand
appeared
some
compact
white
clay
,
resembling
the
chalk
of
Great
Britain
,
which
extended
down
to
a
depth
of
four
feet
.
Then
the
iron
of
the
picks
struck
upon
the
hard
bed
of
the
soil
;
a
kind
of
rock
formed
of
petrified
shells
,
very
dry
,
very
solid
,
and
which
the
picks
could
with
difficulty
penetrate
.
At
this
point
the
excavation
exhibited
a
depth
of
six
and
a
half
feet
and
the
work
of
the
masonry
was
begun
.
At
the
bottom
of
the
excavation
they
constructed
a
wheel
of
oak
,
a
kind
of
circle
strongly
bolted
together
,
and
of
immense
strength
.
The
center
of
this
wooden
disc
was
hollowed
out
to
a
diameter
equal
to
the
exterior
diameter
of
the
Columbiad
.
Upon
this
wheel
rested
the
first
layers
of
the
masonry
,
the
stones
of
which
were
bound
together
by
hydraulic
cement
,
with
irresistible
tenacity
.
