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LETTERS FROM 
pebbles, which we added to our stock of 
relics. 
But if this be really the spot where the 
ship was wrecked, and of this I have no 
doubt from all I have heard or read upon 
the subject, is it altogether impossible 
that by descending in a diving-bell some 
part of her might be discovered ? A vessel 
large enough to have carried “ two hundred 
three-score and sixteen souls” must have had 
very heavy anchors and other articles of 
metal, and though these may long ago have 
been entirely reduced to the state of oxide, I 
believe it possible that they may still be in 
existence in that form. A portion of the 
woodwork even may have been preserved by 
being embedded in the sand. 
On our way homewards, we made trials 
with the dredge in several places, but met 
with no success. We landed in St. Mark’s 
