I Tried The Boiling-Point Of Water Here, And Found That The Ebullition Occurred At Two Degrees Higher Than At The Alice Falls, Which Indicated A Fall Of Nearly 1000 Feet, The Western End Of The Range Being Much Lower Than The Middle Or Eastern.

We had still a couple of bottles of spirit left in the medical department, and as nobody seemed inclined to get ill, we opened one here.

Jimmy Andrews having been a sailor boy, I am afraid had learnt bad habits, as he was very fond of grog. When we opened the last bottle at Christmas, and Jimmy had had a taste, he said, "What's the use of only a nobbler or two? I wouldn't give a d - ," dump, I suppose he meant, "for grog unless I could get drunk." I said, "Well, now, my impression is that it would require very little grog to do that." He said, "Why, I'd drink six bottles off and never know it." I said, "Well, the next bottle we open you shall have as much out of it as you can take in one drink, even if you drink the whole bottle." He replied, "Oh, all right, I'll leave a nobbler for you, you know, Mr. Giles; and I'd like to give Tietkens a taste; but that [adjective] Gibson, I'll swear he won't git none." So we opened the bottle, and I said, "Now then, Jimmy, here's your grog, let's see how much you can drink." "Oh!" said he," I ain't going to drink it all at once." "All right," I said, "if you don't, we shall - so now is your chance." Jimmy poured out a good stiff glass and persisted in swallowing it raw.

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