P., and other gentlemen, passing
through the entrance from the Albert Dock to the new dock, across which
a blue ribbon had been stretched. At the moment when the ribbon snapped
asunder, under the bow of the Berlin, the Duke of Edinburgh, stepping
forward on the upper deck of the steamer, said, "I have now the
gratification of declaring this dock open, and calling it the Edinburgh
Dock." On this announcement being made, a signal was conveyed to a
battery of guns, posted on the sea wall of the new dock, from which a
party of the Royal Artillery fired a Royal salute. The steamer, having
gone round the new dock, was brought up at the quay at the west. His
Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, with Prince Henry of Prussia, the
officers of the fleet, and the Commissioners, disembarked and proceeded
to the saloon in the new dock, where luncheon in honor of the occasion
was given by the Leith Dock Commissioners.--_Illustrated London News,
Aug. 6._
[Illustration: OPENING OF A NEW ENGLISH DOCK.]
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IMPROVED GRAIN ELEVATOR.
The illustration shows the apparatus at work transferring a cargo of
grain from the hold of a ship by means of an elevating band fitted
with buckets. By a simple contrivance shown in the engraving by
diamond-shaped squares, the elevating band can be shortened or
lengthened at pleasure, so as to suit it to the position the grain to be
elevated occupies in the ship or barge.
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