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The wheel & pipe <s>was</s> were attached to the front part of the
machine & could be lowered to any depth required.  The machine
was fastened on each side and in the stern.  The two side
ropes were each sufficiently long to allow it <s>the</s> to swing first
in one direction till <s>the</s>one line was taut then to the other.  This
swinging to and from in a small area would be kept up till
all the mud was scoured out, the machine would then be
moved forward a short distance and the scouring continued.

They have been working already a month, but the undertaking
is such a great one that the end of the work will
be far into the future.  When I reached the second bridge
I entered the ravine, here, close to the edge of the brook and not
far from the bridge Polygala cruciata was found.  I spent
a few hours in the ravine finding Hydrangea arborescens quite
frequently with the radiant flowers, whenever found however,
the other flower were not at all conspicuous.  Six terrapin
were seen, two of them close together under leaves on the
cool earth.  Found to-day also Asclepias verticillata.

Left the Loch at 1.30 P.M so as to reach home at 4 P.M.

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July 14. 1900.  Repeated the trip of June 30, and again alone.
        