[6] In 1854, the yield was 64,661,401 tons; in 1864, the yield was 92,787,873: the average increase per annum was, therefore, no less than 2,812,647 tons.
[7] I have obtained a somewhat different result from a computation I have just gone through. I make the consumption 291 millions in 1900, and 1,446 millions in 1950. Mr. Lemoran seems to have taken the percentage at 3½ instead of 3¼. It is worth noticing how seriously a small change in the percentage affects the result; the consumption in 1950 becoming 1,760 millions of tons, instead of 1,446 millions.
[8] The year 1863 was the last whose statistics were available for Mr. Jevons’s purpose; and estimating from either 1860 or 1862 would give a result smaller than either of the above. Indeed, the consumption was less in 1862 than in 1861.
[9] See ‘Light Science’ (second series) for a discussion of later researches.
[10] The wave did little mischief, the winds being easterly.
[11] This opinion Dr. Carpenter has since somewhat modified. It will be remembered, of course, that the evidence derived from the nature of superposed strata is in no way affected by what is shown above to hold with adjacent deposits.
[12] I remember to have read that in this hurricane guns which had long lain under water were washed up like mere drift upon the beach. Perhaps this circumstance grew gradually into the incredible story above recorded.
[13] A ship by scudding before the gale may—if the captain is not familiar with the laws of cyclones—go round and round without escaping. The ship ‘Charles Heddle’ did this in the East Indies, going round no less than five times.
[14] The reader need hardly be reminded of the complete fulfilment of this anticipation, during the war between France and Germany.
[15] The grip is never properly caught without the pause; but anything beyond a momentary pause is a bad fault in style.