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and jack-screws in it. I then filled the box up with hot rosin, and when it cooled and became perfectly solid I did not believe that the hole would start again.
I was so confident of it that I left off the outside plate at once, and no more water leaked in than would make a stream the size of a goose quill.
And the Mississippi was run from Port Royal to Ship Island, and from Ship Island to New Orleans, and from New Orleans back to
Boston before that hole was any further repaired, and it never gave way.
Ship Island is an island of white sand thrown up by the winds and waves.
It is between five and six miles long, and is about ten miles distant from the Mississippi coast.
At the upper part of it there is some soil on which is a growth of pine which serves at once
A. M. Thayer and Co. 1892.
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