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Being anxious to make this account of our gear and its manage- 
ment as useful as possible to 'others who may engage in similar work, 
and who wish to do it economically, I have been careful to lay full 
emphasis on our misfortunes as well as on our successes. 
The ground we investigated was particularly interesting, and the 
deeper water gave numerically better results than that inside the 
100-fathom line; and, of course, the deeper we went, the rarer were 
the animal forms obtained. 
The gear we had with us worked well, and I feel certain that with 
such gear, but with 1000 fathoms more wire rope, and moderate 
weather, most interesting work would result from a fortnight's dredg- 
ing off this south-west corner of Ireland. 
