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with mosquitoes - in search of suitable collecting places for Dick.  One place where we forded the river we could see women beating the clothes on rocks.  We saw trees afflicted with Panama Disease (P.D.) and even ate a ripe banana from one of the diseased trees.

July 16, 1935
After four o'clock we went up to the house for tea, which we had on the veranda.  About 4:45 we started home in Mrs. Bonell's car - leaving Marjorie at the office.  I thought that Mrs. B. would most likely bring us right home, but she had a few things she wanted to show us.  First she took us for a drive along some of the upper parts of the Ferry River.  This river receives most of its water from springs and as we drove along it was quite noticeable how quickly the river widened with this increase of water.  The Caymanas employs 4 men to go up and down the river cutting weeds and keeping the channel clear.  The work is done from flat boats and it is a continual job.  Were it not done the water would soon overflow

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onto the surrounding land and make it [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] the swamp it once was before reclamation.  We drove up to the place where the old road to Spanish Town joined the road we were on.  At this cross-roads are erected two masonry posts which look like the mile posts built by the Spaniards in Mexico.  It is entirely possible that these could have been built for the same purpose.  
On the way home we turned off the main Spanish Town Kingston road, up the road by the Ferry Inn.  This road follows the Ferry River for quite a distance and is supposed to connect with the road which was marked by the Spanish posts-mentioned previously (above).  Mrs. Bonell is of the opinion that this was the real old Spanish Town road and that the river at one time flowed on the other side of Ferry Inn.  At present the river cuts off the Inn from the road, but it is entirely possible that the Inn and River were at one time on the same side, as one can see old river beds for quite a distance up the new road.  

[[image - map depicting the Spanish Town Kingston Road, the old river beds, and the old road]]