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Monday 15 Sept. temper. 33°, strong wind from various directions, north predominating in the evening. 6h 30 workmen taken on: 16 men 17 women the pairs were distributed over the trenches 0 , 1 , (3-4) (5-7-8) and in the course of the afternoon will also be opened (9-10) 11 , 15 , 16 . a first rather coarse floor is generally noted between - 30 and - 50 between - 70 and - 110 we reach a second floor, as well as some fragments of rubble walls . at the end of the area , trenches 1 at - 55 and 3-4 at - 57 offer us a material compact, analogous to decomposed rock . various soundings in depth lead to its being defined as virgin soil . after tea , Aitken and I go down again to make a survey of the first trenches as regards the elements detected and expected . from the tests of this day , no concordance
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