TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND- CHAPTER 14

JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 14 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JULES VERNE THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 14 The next day the 16th of April and Easter Sunday the settlers issued from the Chimneys at daybreak and proceeded to wash their linen. The engineer intended to manufacture soap as soon as he could procure the necessary materials--soda or potash fat or oil. The important question of renewing their wardrobe would be treated of in the proper time and place. At any rate their clothes would last at least six months longer for they were strong and could resist the wear of manual labor. But all would depend on the situation of the island with regard to inhabited land. This would be settled to-day if the weather permitted. The sun rising above a clear horizon announced a magnificent day one of those beautiful autumn days which are like the last farewells of the warm season. It was now necessary to complete the observations of the evening before by measuring the height of the cliff above the level of the sea. Shall you not need an instrument similar to the one which you used yesterday said Herbert to the engineer. No my boy replied the latter we are going to proceed differently but in as precise a way. Herbert wishing to learn everything he could followed the engineer to the beach. Pencroft Neb and the reporter remained behind and occupied themselves in different ways. Cyrus Harding had provided himself with a straight stick twelve feet long which he had measured as exactly as possible by comparing it with his own height which he knew to a hair. Herbert carried a plumb-line which Harding had given him that is to say a simple stone fastened to the end of a flexible fiber. Having reached a spot about twenty feet from the edge of the beach and nearly five hundred feet from the cliff which rose perpendicularly Harding thrust the pole two feet into the sand and wedging it up carefully he managed by means of the plumb-line to erect it perpendicularly with the plane of the horizon. That done he retired the necessary distance when lying .

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