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Whatever happened to the two bits of wood and a plumbline?
¿Qué había sido de los dos trocitos de madera y la plomada?
Herbert carried a plumbline which Harding had given him, that is to say, a simple stone fastened to the end of a flexible fiber.
Harbert llevaba una plomada que le había dado el ingeniero, es decir, una simple piedra atada al extremo de una hebra flexible.
Having reached a spot about twenty feet from the edge of the beach, and nearly five hundred feet from the cliff, which rose perpendicularly, Harding thrust the pole two feet into the sand, and wedging it up carefully, he managed, by means of the plumbline, to erect it perpendicularly with the plane of the horizon.
Al llegar a veinte pies del extremo de la playa, a unos quinientos pies de la muralla de granito, que se levantaba perpendicularmente, Ciro Smith clavó la pértiga uno o dos pies en la arena, calzándola con cuidado, y por medio de la plomada consiguió ponerla perpendicularmente al plano de horizonte.
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