The sliver from each can is then placed into the corresponding sliver guide, and thus the full width of the machine is occupied.

Thus to my dismay I discovered that we were on a narrow island about two miles long, with two barely possible ways of escape: one back by the way we came, the other ahead by an almost inaccessible sliver-bridge that crossed the great crevasse from near the middle of it!

Sliver dollars of North and South America.

These two parallel sheets, split from one common sheet, traverse the two conductors and are ultimately delivered as two slivers about 6 inches above the point or plane in which the 10 or 12 slivers entered, and on to what is termed a "sliver plate."

One very common method of feeding is to place 10 or 12 full sliver canswhich have been prepared at the breaker cardon the floor and to the right of the machine illustrated in Fig.

The width of the crevasse was here about fifty feet, and the sliver crossing diagonally was about seventy feet long; its thin knife-edge near the middle was depressed twenty-five or thirty feet below the level of the glacier, and the upcurving ends were attached to the sides eight or ten feet below the brink.