human
Were every cake of this ice melted into water, Daggett, Roswell continued,
gpt
I don't know that, answered Daggett, stoutly.
human
See what they're doing now-a-days, and think nothing of it. I have seen a whole row of brick houses turned round by the use of jack-screws; and one building actually taken down a hill much higher than the distance you name. Commodore Rodgers has just hauled a heavy frigate out of the water, and means to put her back again, when he has done with her. What has been done once can be done twice. I do not like giving up 'till I'm forced to it.
gpt
That is plain enough, Captain Daggett, returned Roswell, smiling.
human
That you are game, no one can deny; but it will all come to nothing. Neither Commodore Rodgers nor Commodore anybody else could put your craft into the water again without something to do it with.
gpt
You think it would be asking too much to take your schooner, and go across to the main next season a'ter timber to make ways? put in Daggett, inquiringly.
human
She stands up like a church, and nothing would be easier than to lay down ways under her bottom.
gpt
Or more difficult than to make them of any use, after you had put them there. No, no, my good sir, you must think no more of this; though it may be possible to make a cover for the cargo, and return and recover it all, by freighting a craft from Rio, on our way north.