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and water-logged knees and beams which formed her bottom 

 and the chief task of the diver now is, with pick and shovel, to 

 break np the hard conglomerate of sand and gravel which has 

 been compacted by the action of the water and the rusting iron 

 The only sense the diver has to guide him in these depths u 

 that of feeling, for at this depth it is as dark as midnight. The 

 material he thus collects is brought to the surface in a bucket 

 and carefully looked over. 



This work is done at the cost of the Frigate Hussar Com 

 pany, an incorporated company, with a capital stock dividet 



Cannon bell and bonks brought up from ttie wreck ov the uussar 

 into forty-eight thousand shares of one hundred dollars each, 

 corresponding to the amount of treasure said to be in the run 

 of the Hussar, and since 18136 it has been steadily carried on 

 The mass of gold has not yet been found, but from time to 

 time in the loads of mud and sand a gold-piece is found. A 

 lump of silver made of various coins, agglomerated by the ac- 

 tion of the water, has been brought up, having some gold coins 

 set in it. Cannon, cannon balls, chains, manacles, piles of gun- 

 Pints, silver plate, pewter dishes, the ship's bell, and quantifies 

 of glass and earthen ware, with numbers of human bones, have 

 been rescued from the deep. Various museums in the c untry 

 have specimens of relics brought up from this histouc snip. 

 v)ne day a brass box was brought up, and when opened found 



