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water's edge like so many waders. Scrapings from the rocks were made. 
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All that we noticed were some tiny mollusks (asteropods), and a coating 
of green algae. Mosses, lichens, and fresh-water algae from a melt¬ 
water stream were also gathered in; the mosses Bsrlesed for insects. 
Time was not vouchsafed us for a dredge haul. It is true that with 
the trash and "junk" on the bottom left from the whaling days, we might 
have lost our dredge, hut made aboard here by the engineer's force out 
of an old steel oil drum, replacement would not have been difficult, and 
there was cable to spare on the hydrographic winch, the outer turns of 
which had been pretty well used already. 
Fishing with the traps revealed that fishes were plentiful. Thirty- 
five were taken in the overnight set in 5 and 8 fms. They range in length 
from 11 to 21 inches; the larger fish were in the trap set in 8 fms. 
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Near the shore before the old wrecked whale factory and dry-works 
are a number of large steel tanks,rusty to be sure. A couple of them 
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have had openins cut into them at ground level and are used as store 
houses. Should ever a "station" or laboratory be planned for Deception, 
it would be an easy matter to convert one or more of the remaining tanks 
into laboratories and quarters. Cork insulation as we have it aboard the 
Staten Island, ports and doors cut in, two decks installed would give 
one a very substantial, comfortable, already roofed building with a pos¬ 
sible source of heat hard by the door, and water or its makings also close 
at hand. 
Tnere is a well, back from the beach,in which the water has a tem¬ 
perature of 65°F, but this is not for drinking, melt-water streams are 
