What can this compensation be?
Having turned that part of the bank under which the tunnel passes, I find myself on the opposite side of the lagoon, where are situated the storerooms containing the merchandise brought by the _Ebba_ on each trip, and which contain a great quantity of bales.
Beyond is the manufactory of electric energy.

I gaze in at the windows as I pass and notice that it contains machines of the latest invention and highest attained perfection, which take up little space.

Not one steam engine, with its more or less complicated mechanism and need of fuel, is to be seen in the place.

As I had surmised, piles of extraordinary power supply the current to the lamps in the cavern, as well as to the dynamos of the tug.

No doubt the current is also utilized for domestic purposes, such as warming the Beehive and cooking food, I can see that in a neighboring cavity it is applied to the alembics used to produce fresh water.