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“ÆGRI SOMNIA” The following day 10th January, the _Nautilus_ continued her course between two seas, but with such remarkable speed that I could not estimate it at less than thirty-five miles an hour. The rapidity of her screw was such that I could neither follow nor count its revolutions. When I reflected that this marvellous electric agent, after having afforded motion, heat, and light to the _Nautilus_, still protected her from outward attack, and transformed her into an ark of safety which no profane hand might …