German composition

Section 86 The London Docks. — II

On⁠1 another floor of the same building may⁠2 be found bundles of Pimento⁠3 sticks and Malacca⁠4 canes, a great store of mother-of-pearl, a heap of delicate⁠5, richly-tinted ear-shells⁠6, and a quantity of ivory. Here are elephants’ teeth, some⁠7 of which are larger than bricks and weigh fourteen pounds. Passing⁠8 out of this building, we find⁠9 ourselves in an enormous shed with little black boards, hung⁠10 at intervals, and bearing the names of vessels. Beneath these boards are⁠11 goods lying ready for shipment, and these are at least as varied⁠12 as the imports⁠13. Here are pickles⁠14, blacking, a⁠15 cartload or so of bricks, and scores⁠16 of anvils. There⁠17 are church-bells, a chest of drawers, a rocking-horse, a mangle, and boxes, bales, and barrels innumerable⁠18.—‘The Globe’ Newspaper.

Notes

1 In.

2 Use the Active Voice with ‘man’, and say ‘one finds’. Comp. S. 4, N. 4. For the constr. see App. § 14.

3 Nelkenpfeffer, m.

4 Malakkarohr.

5 zart.

6 Seeohrmuscheln.

7 The clause must commence with the words ‘of which’.

8 ‘To pass out’ here = to leave, v. trans. Construe according to S. 55, N. 1.

9 to find oneself, sich befinden.

10 auf´hängen; at, in. Construe according to S. 7, N. 3, B.

11 are — shipment, liegen zur Einschiffung bestimmte Waren.

12 verschiedener Art.

[13] Einfuhrartikel.

14 Use this noun in its unaltered form.

15 Say ‘one or two loads of bricks’.

16 scores of, eine Unzahl von.

17 Dort sind. Comp. S. 82, N. 7.

18 in zahlloser Menge.