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414 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. [August 29,186- panels * were all in position, and they were only waiting for still water to drop them home. This being a very momentous operation, there was an unusual assemblage of engineers and noteworthy personages on the works, and we were fortunate enough to secure two pictures, in which they were all introduced, one gentleman was caught in the very dignified act of blowing his nose. One of the pictures we took was extremely interesting, for one of the navvies is shown in the act of throwing a sack of clay into the boiling waters. The spray caused by the falling sack is just dashed up; and the navy’s barrow is still turned upon its side. Having completed our labours at the coffer dam, we packed up, and were soon on our way for the inundated farm houses. At a way-side inn, where we stopped for refreshment, we were very much amused by the conversation of some men, whose outward appearance led us to think them farm labourers, but whose very learned talk proved them to be Brunels or Telfords in embryo. Had the task of stopping the waters have been entrusted to them, they would have managed it on the first day of the outbreak. The plan of one of them struck us as worth Some attention. He would have made one of the now broken bridges the base for his operations, for he would have placed the pile driving engines upon the bridge, and have driven a row of piles on each side, and then having taken off the top of the bridge, he would have filled up the space with sacks of clay. We left these sapient gentlemen to finish the dam with wind bags, and in a short time we reached the breach in the bank. We now lost all traces of human habitation, for we had to travel on a miserable soft road by the side of the bank, and so cut up by cart ruts, that several times we had to get out to lift the unfortunate conveyance out of the deep cuttings. Our progress was so slow that I could endure it no longer, but got out and walked on the top of the bank, leaving the con veyance to follow. On reaching the farm house, I saw a female at one of the upper windows, who was calling for some one to bring the boat, for it was fastened to the bank, and she was in consequence a prisoner; as her calls were fruitless, for no one put in an appearance to her summons, I volunteered to personate the character of the jolly young waterman for her benefit; an offer which was very thankfully accepted. After some little trouble, for there were no oars in the boat, and nothing to manage it but a pole, I succeeded in making a start, but my next essay was anything but a success, for on placing the pole down to propel the craft, I found no bottom, and in consequence very nearly turned a somersault into the water. It turned out I was crossing a drain about 20 feet deep. I found my course, though a short one, very diffi cult to navigate, for I had no chart. I had to get through a hedge, and then found more dangers ahead in the shape ot fruit trees in the garden. Shortly, however, I found myself under the window ; and was repaid for all by the agreeable task of assisting a young lady out of the window. I tried to picture myself the hero of a very small romance, and a procession of gay cavaliers with rope ladders, gondalas, &c. &c., passed rapidly across the retina, but these were all cruelly put to flight by a gruff voice which proceeded from the governor, who put his head out of the window, and said “ are you all right Mary,” and on an answer in the affirmative being given, he proceeded to hand down various pails, jugs, &c., for I found that they were going about three quarters of a mile for water. This was indeed a bitter jest. Truly had the picture of Coleridge been realized : “ Water, water every where, but not a drop to drink.” The wife of this gentleman had made herself quite famous, for when every one else had deserted their homes in terror, she heroically remained, and has continued to do so. The * The construction of the dam is Very ingenious. Two rows of piles are driven at equal distance from each other, and extended across the stream. Each pile has two companions broader but not so thick, which are placed on each side of it. These are all bolted together, and so form immense groves, into which the panels, formed of thick planks of timber firmly Joined, are fitted. These were dropped into the groves, and the space between the two rows filled up with sacks of gravel, clay, &c. water determined to have the best rooms, but she disputed its claim inch by inch, and finally removed everythingport able up stairs, and there she now holds undisputable PoSSES sion. Every night, when the family are all in the house, the boat is moored to the drawing-room window, and they are secure from all intrusion, except from watery visitors. Our conveyance had by this time struggled up to ns, and I proceeded to prepare for work ; but now came a difficulty I had not thought of before. I also wanted water, not to drink, but, at any rate, fit for photographic operations, am not a drop was to be had, but the dirty salt water all around me. After some consideration, during which I saw no way out of the difficulty—time was valuable, for it was near sun set and I could not afford to journey a mile and a half in search of water, if I could help it—1 determined, therefore, to try the water near at hand; and tore off a strip from one of my cloths for cleaning glasses, and tied it on m! tap so as to serve for a filter. I tried a plate, and found I answer very well. Of course it was impossible to intensify the pictures, I therefore well washed them, and coated them with glycerine, and put them aside for future operations. 1 noticed that the water produced a very curious effect on th plate when first applied. It appeared to rapidly darken the picture wherever it first touched, but after fixing there wo nothing unusual in its appearance. When, however, during the washing of one of the pictures my supply of water failed me, and I could not, in consequence, cover the plate rapidly 1 found that it was stained wherever the water first touched it, and that no after washing proved of any avail. I tried four plates, and certainly they proved faithful representations of a most dismal and melancholy scene, but they were unfortunately not aided by the genial influence of the suh, for he turned sulky and retired to bed early behind a bank of clouds by no means attractive in appear ance, and as there was no chance of his condescending to enlighten us any further, we packed up, and after a weary two miles journey, over ground made still more dangerous by the twilight that encircled us, we turned on to the gravel road with a lightened and thankful heart that we had not broken the wheels off, nor turned the conveyance over, a contingency that seemed probable every moment, until "e reached, what to us was terra Jirma viz., the turnpike road- In an hour and a half we were in Lynn once again, and quite tired of photography for that day. V.B. A SHORT LESSON ON PHOTOGRAPHY.—No. 2. BY J. T0WLEB, M.D.* The decomposition effected by means of chloride of sodium and nitrate of the oxide of silver, is a very interesting exan pie of a group of similar decompositions, not only witl nitrate of silver and any one of the soluble chlorides, h® with pairs of other salts, as with sulphate of potassa and tio salts of barium, lime, or strontia. Now, 1 mean by ti soluble chlorides such salts, resulting from a chemical co" bination of chlorine and a metal, as dissolve in water. .1 a general rule for you, as a beginner, you may regard a true chlorides as soluble, with the exception of chlorm^ silver, chloride of lead, and protochloride of mercury (calomel The soluble chlorides are those of potassium, sodiuli lithium, ammonium, calcium, magnesium, &c., through M the metals. The chloride of silver produced by the decnd position of any one of these chlorides is the same when was c as that from the chloride of sodium : it is always senstton to light; it always changes colour in the same prop° 1 ’ and is equally insoluble, when thus acted upon, in Nve sulphite of soda. You will observe here what an extesme choice we have in the materials for producing the s effect, and will recognise hereafter from this observa d by clue to the variety of formulas recommended and "SCdro- photographers. 1 must not omit to mention that—- * From Humphreys Journal. 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