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large [[red underline]] number of poles and trees [[/red underline]] put in the shoals [[red underline]] for fishing [[/red underline]] purposes and considerable number of [[red underline]] driftwood [[/red underline]].  This shore of Staten Island not covered with factories but bathing resort and seemingly good beaches and hotels but all of "popular" style.  Stakes and [[red underline]] little birch trees planted everywhere [[/red underline]] for fishing, requires steady lookout if out of channel. Some heavy waves altho weather rather calm. but [[red underline]] boat behaves very well [[/red underline]].  In the distance is Sandy Hook then opposite Rockaway and Coney Island and Gravesend Bay.  Then the Narrows with Fort Wadsworth. there everything look trim and green.  Big artillery guns hidden behind the green hills.  Pretty sight of all the
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sail vessels and schooners anchored [[red underline]] near quarantine [[/red underline]] station.  [[red underline]] Six gun war vessels [[red underline]] anchored in long line in [[red underline]] middle of channel. [[/red underline]] All [[red underline]] merchant vessels that [[/red underline]] are not british have [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] big flags of their country and their [[red underline]] name in large letters painted [[/red underline]] on their sides so as not be be mistaken for belligerents.  Quite a number of [[red underline]] British vessels [[/red underline]]. most of them with [[red underline]] name painted out [[/red underline]]. At the docks of the German line saw the big [[red underline]] "Vaterland" [[/red underline]] and other interned ship.  The docks are pretty full with them but not a sign of life except some stewards or officers leaning over the balustrade, and with a surly frowning look on their faces.  After all [[red underline]] England has pretty well swept every