This suggestion was followed by ingenious yarns to the effect that in the extreme North ships had to be built with wooden nails, instead of iron nails, as the magnetic mountains would draw the iron nails out of the ship.
(This suggestion; was followed; by ingenious yarns to the effect that in the extreme North ships had to be built with wooden nails) (the magnetic mountains; would draw; the iron nails; out of the ship)
This suggestion the magnetic mountains
was followed would draw
by ingenious yarns to the effect that in the extreme North ships had to be built with wooden nails
the iron nails out of the ship