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Show SUBSEA VESSELS AN OLD ifrE Inventors Had Thouohts of Such Craft Centuries Aoo, as Ancient Records dive Proof. Not In '1000, when Lord Verulam nrst ninde n vague allusion to thf subject, hut In 104R. It seems, won first mention made of the tiumnrlne ; and then nt some considerable length In a memoir published nt "The Brazen Srpe'nt. In Paul's Churchyard." And with this tf discovery comes nnother, . that the submarine, or "Ark for 3nb- f marine Navigation." ns the nuihor. John Wllklns. terms It. had heen tried nnd found a practical possibility In Ihe.dnys of the civil wars. "Cornelous Dreble" had experimented with "th contrlvnnce." "here in England," and "found It feasible." There Is Rome-thing Rome-thing cnptlvatlngly Elizabethan about this John Wllklns. "Chaplnln to the Prince Elector Palatine," and his far-sighted far-sighted consideration ot the submarine subma-rine ns a war auxiliary. Londoners bernine acquainted with htm one March evening recently, ns thev opened their Pall .Mali Gazettes and dipped into tin contents. "Cornelim Dreble nnd htn contrlvnnce" arouse n tantalizing curlo-Uty. |