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is none the worse for all this, in fact would like a second 

 festival, provided it could be as lucrative as the first. 



TO SIR JOHN MURRAY 



On Board the Ivernia, 

 Dec. 29, 1902. 



Here I am off Queenstown, due in London Tuesday 

 night. I only expect to be there very few days and run 

 south. Have you come across any very good sounding 

 machine for moderate depths? say 20 to 30 to 100 

 fathoms, with a cup to collect a good lot of stuff from 

 the bottom? I want to make a lot of soundings on our 

 pile of tailings (at Calumet) which has accumulated for 

 thirty years and more, and find out where the valuable 

 part has been deposited off our mills in from 10 to 50 

 fathoms, and want a good cup or clasper. My idea was 

 a Thomson machine such as yachts use and a telegraph 

 company clasper. What do you say ? I 've brought with 

 me a number of the most interesting of the Plates of 

 my Pacific Report, as well as of the maps, which I hope 

 to show you before I turn back to the United States, 

 though my Report ought to be out March 1, unless the 

 printer is delayed by the paper, and I have told them 

 to mail you a copy at once on its issue. I shall be in 

 London at Long's Hotel, as usual, and at Athenee in 

 Paris, my stay at each depending on the copper people 

 I have to see — and I hope to get to Sicily later and 

 then out. 



My chirography is worse than usual, thanks to the 

 rolling of the ship. Drop me a line to Long's regarding 

 the sounding machine, as I want to send one home at 

 once to use while our Lake is frozen. 



