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Plum Point. Md.
Sept. 1 - 08

Dear Dr. Benedict

  We have had rather bad weather. Got Mackie's skull out and it was very fragile and went into pieces with the tide working up on us. Got the two lower jaws out of the hole where I though my skull might be but got the front part of it and a porpoise skull and some [[ziles ?]] so that my bone hole yelded pretty well. I suppose the whales skull is in there but further back and it would be a big job to get at it. We have a number of jaws and another skull and a lot of other