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Wednesday 10 Sept. temp. 30° max. wind light 6h 30 start of operations with technical staff only Aitken has series of ropes prepared, long of 20 m and calibrated in different colours every 2m. this in order to divide into sections for examination the 20 × 20 squares that I must peg out. 9h 30 . the first squares (zone EFG 7 - EFG 10) are taken out onto the ground and Aitken puts his instrument into service. Michaël stays with me for the sightings. an area of 40 × 160 is thus pegged out and tomorrow I must add to it an area 40 × 80 After discussions last night, on the plan and then on site; according to its intact whole and the shallow depth of the rock at this spot, the 1o zone is made up of the vast unexcavated surface of the SE region of the town. bounded to the N by the large trench EW, to the E by the cliff, to the W by the narrow trench NS linking the
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