deep piled (deppild)

Having a pile composed of long threads, as velvet, Oriental car pets, and similar fabrics. deep-sea (dēp'sē), a. Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the ocean: as, deep - sea dredg ing. IMG:content-2214.png:[blocks in formation] extract. ments, in which great ingenuity has been displayed, and in which the inventive genius of Sir William Thomson has been particularly conspicuous. The principal features of the most perfect sounding-machine are: (1) the sinker, which is a cannon-ball, through which pa es a cylinder provided with a valve to collect and retain a specimen of the bottom, the cylinder being, by an ingenious mechanical arrangement, detached from the shot, which remains at the bottom; (2) the line, made of steel wire, weighing about 14 pounds to the nautical mile; (3) machinery for regulating the lowering of the sinker and for reeling in the wire with the cylinder attached in such a manner that the irregular strain due to the motion of the ship may be guarded against and the danger of breakage thus reduced to a minimum. In the deepest accurate sound ing yet made the bottom was reached at the depth of 4,655 fathoms, but owing to the breaking of the wire no specimen was obtained. This sounding was made on the "Tuscarora" by Commander G. E. Belknap, U. S. N., in north latitude 44° 55′, east longitude 152° 26'. The deepest sounding yet made in which a specimen of the bottom was brought up was that of the United States Coast Sur vey steamer "Blake," off Porto Rico, the depth there reached being 4,561 fathoms.