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 KNOWLEDGE MASTERING DIFFICULTIES

Herbert now understood how the engineer was going to proceed to ascertain the culmination of the sun, that is to say its passing the meridian of the island, or, in other terms, the south of the place. It was by means of the shadow cast on the sand by the stick. * * * * When he thought the moment had come, Cyrus Harding knelt on the sand, and with little wooden pegs, which he stuck into the sand, he began to mark the successive diminutions of the stick's shadow. His companions, bending over him, watched the operation with extreme interest.—Page 392. Vol. 5.