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Plans -- A Bridge over the Mercy -- Mode adopted for making / an Island of Prospect Heights -- The Drawbridge -- Harvest -- / The Stream -- The Poultry Yard -- A Pigeon-house -- The two / Onagas -- The Cart -- Excursion to Port Balloon.
The settlers in Lincoln Island had now regained their dwelling, without having been obliged to reach it by the old opening, and were therefore spared the trouble of mason's work. It was certainly lucky, that at the moment they were about to set out to do so, the apes had been seized with that terror, no less sudden than inexplicable, which had driven them out of Granite House. Had the animals discovered that they were about to be attacked from another direction? This was the only explanation of their sudden retreat.