CHAPTER VII.

DAVY JONES’S LOCKER AND THOSE WHO DIVE INTO IT. Scientific Diving—General Principles—William Phipps and the 79 Treasure Ship—Founder of the House of Mulgrave—Halley’s Wooden Diving‐Bell and Air Barrels—Smeaton’s Improvements—Spalding’s Death—Operations at Plymouth Breakwater—The Diver’s Life—“Lower away!”—The Diving‐_Belle_ and her Letter from Below—Operations at the Bottom—Brunel and the Thames Tunnel—The Diving Dress—Suffocation—Remarkable Case of Salvage—The “Submarine Hydrostat”—John Gann of Whitstable—Dollar Row—Various Anecdotes—Combat at the Bottom of the Sea—A Mermaid Story—Run down by the _Queen of Scotland_