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Identifier: samoaumawherelif00chur (find matches)
Title: Samoa 'uma, where life is different
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Churchill, Llewella Pierce, Mrs. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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fmore than thirty feet, and has nearly vertical sides,so that there is only one small area of shallow waternear the lower outlet. A geologist would probablyclass it as a large pot hole with a diameter of aboutforty feet. Into this pool the length of the slide isabout fifty feet, the last ten of which are in the air,the slide along the rock being some forty feet oflength, with a vertical descent before reaching thefinal plunge. When the water in the stream is low—that is, ingeneral, when it is safe to essay the slide—^there isnot enough water going over the dike at the rightspot to make it advisable to slide, for much escapesover other channels, and those channels are so filledwith rugged rocks as to discourage any travel whichinvolves the principles of sliding friction. But bydamming the other outlets the water held in reservein the upper pool can be concentrated until its wholevolume passes over the smooth channel in the dike,where it can make the sheerest plunge to the basin 268
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THE SLIDING ROCK OF PAPASEEA. below. When thus gathered the stream is about threefeet wide at the brink of the fall and two inches deep. Captain Rason was still more than ever disinclinedto engage in such sport after he had looked theground over and had measured the depth with hisfinger. He took refuge in the science of hydraulicsand proved to his own satisfaction that the slide couldnot be made in two inches of water without damagesomehow. Meanwhile the others of the party were going tosee the thing through without regard for mathematicsat all. One^of the Samoan girls undertook to carryone of the young Lieutenants over the rock just toshow how. Down in the stream she sat and instructedhim to sit behind her. The attitude was just the sameas in coasting on a double-runner sled in the landswhere there is snow. The principal point to be ob-served is that the Lieutenant shall look steadfastlyover the girls left shoulder while she wears her headto the right, for if the two heads should com

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