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The
engineer
one
evening
imparted
to
his
friends
a
plan
which
he
had
conceived
for
fortifying
the
corral
.
It
appeared
prudent
to
him
to
heighten
the
palisade
and
to
flank
it
with
a
sort
of
blockhouse
,
which
,
if
necessary
,
the
settlers
could
hold
against
the
enemy
.
Granite
House
might
,
by
its
very
position
,
be
considered
impregnable
;
therefore
the
corral
with
its
buildings
,
its
stores
,
and
the
animals
it
contained
,
would
always
be
the
object
of
pirates
,
whoever
they
were
,
who
might
land
on
the
island
,
and
should
the
colonists
be
obliged
to
shut
themselves
up
there
they
ought
also
to
be
able
to
defend
themselves
without
any
disadvantage
.
This
was
a
project
which
might
be
left
for
consideration
,
and
they
were
,
besides
,
obliged
to
put
off
its
execution
until
the
next
spring
.
About
the
15th
of
May
the
keel
of
the
new
vessel
lay
along
the
dockyard
,
and
soon
the
stem
and
stern-post
,
mortised
at
each
of
its
extremities
,
rose
almost
perpendicularly
.
The
keel
,
of
good
oak
,
measured
110
feet
in
length
,
this
allowing
a
width
of
five-and-twenty
feet
to
the
midship
beam
.
But
this
was
all
the
carpenters
could
do
before
the
arrival
of
the
frosts
and
bad
weather
.
During
the
following
week
they
fixed
the
first
of
the
stern
timbers
,
but
were
then
obliged
to
suspend
work
.
During
the
last
days
of
the
month
the
weather
was
extremely
bad
.
The
wind
blew
from
the
east
,
sometimes
with
the
violence
of
a
tempest
.
The
engineer
was
somewhat
uneasy
on
account
of
the
dockyard
shed
--
which
besides
,
he
could
not
have
established
in
any
other
place
near
to
Granite
House
--
for
the
islet
only
imperfectly
sheltered
the
shore
from
the
fury
of
the
open
sea
,
and
in
great
storms
the
waves
beat
against
the
very
foot
of
the
granite
cliff
.
But
,
very
fortunately
,
these
fears
were
not
realized
.
The
wind
shifted
to
the
southeast
,
and
there
the
beach
of
Granite
House
was
completely
covered
by
Flotsam
Point
.
Pencroft
and
Ayrton
,
the
most
zealous
workmen
at
the
new
vessel
,
pursued
their
labor
as
long
as
they
could
.
They
were
not
men
to
mind
the
wind
tearing
at
their
hair
,
nor
the
rain
wetting
them
to
the
skin
,
and
a
blow
from
a
hammer
is
worth
just
as
much
in
bad
as
in
fine
weather
.
But
when
a
severe
frost
succeeded
this
wet
period
,
the
wood
,
its
fibers
acquiring
the
hardness
of
iron
,
became
extremely
difficult
to
work
,
and
about
the
10th
of
June
shipbuilding
was
obliged
to
be
entirely
discontinued
.
Cyrus
Harding
and
his
companions
had
not
omitted
to
observe
how
severe
was
the
temperature
during
the
winters
of
Lincoln
Island
.
The
cold
was
comparable
to
that
experienced
in
the
States
of
New
England
,
situated
at
almost
the
same
distance
from
the
equator
.
In
the
northern
hemisphere
,
or
at
any
rate
in
the
part
occupied
by
British
America
and
the
north
of
the
United
States
,
this
phenomenon
is
explained
by
the
flat
conformation
of
the
territories
bordering
on
the
pole
,
and
on
which
there
is
no
intumescence
of
the
soil
to
oppose
any
obstacle
to
the
north
winds
;
here
,
in
Lincoln
Island
,
this
explanation
would
not
suffice
.
"
It
has
even
been
observed
,
"
remarked
Harding
one
day
to
his
companions
,
"
that
in
equal
latitudes
the
islands
and
coast
regions
are
less
tried
by
the
cold
than
inland
countries
.
I
have
often
heard
it
asserted
that
the
winters
of
Lombardy
,
for
example
,
are
not
less
rigorous
than
those
of
Scotland
,
which
results
from
the
sea
restoring
during
the
winter
the
heat
which
it
received
during
the
summer
.
Islands
are
,
therefore
,
in
a
better
situation
for
benefiting
by
this
restitution
.
"
"
But
then
,
Captain
Harding
,
"
asked
Herbert
,
"
why
does
Lincoln
Island
appear
to
escape
the
common
law
?
"
