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[[underlined]]April 16.=[[strikethrough]]Tuesday[[/strikethrough]]Wednesday    16th [[strikethrough and boxed]]9[[/strikethrough and boxed]] [[boxed]]11[[/boxed]][[/underlined]]
   Went alone this a.m. after breakfast to get few pictures of shrubbery (& spec. of trees?) particularly of the [[strikethrough]]sprined?[[/strikethrough]] rubber [[?]] shrub, for determination. This was day got canteen of water

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  Still overcast this morning. Dr. Blanch and Crawford went fishing. Almost too dark most of time for real picture taking but hope I got a few good ones. Collected a few scraps of plants.
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   After lunch ran down past Eden Id. south along coast to see if could discover cove from which old road to Plantation started.  But visibility poor.
    Got back to South Seymour in time to straighten out belongings before supper.and hear about Capt. Pickens [[reft?]] on south channel [[?]] for lab & Navy site; We could take advantage of their facilities by locating there; water tanks & maybe power plant. or beside [[beds?]] on other side. But place would need buoys & [[wire?]] drag. [[3 stacked horizontal lines]]

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Capt. Pickens reft : perhaps: Capt. Pickens rept