HELPS TO STUDY.
Notes and Questions.
Locate the scene of this story on your map.
How does the hero account for his apparent age?
What do you learn from Jonas Ramus's description of the whirlpool?
How does the "Encyclopedia Britannica" account for the vortex?
What was the theory of Kircher?
Briefly relate in your own words the hero's story of his experience in the Maelström.
What tempted him into the whirlpool?
Account for his miscalculation as to the time of the slack.
What three observations did the hero make?