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been crected upon her, thus making the

hull so much higher, and bri meimg 111( level of the \Cl[r()ltllll(’ and false abo\ c the

water. Upon th]s supu%muum pumps were erected, capable of pumping 7o tons a minute.

All being ready, the pumps were sct to work, pumping the water out of the arca cuclosed by the ship and its superstructure and casting it over into the sca. This was begun at seven in the morning of July 8, and the c pumps had been going full\ an hour before any movement was ()b\u vable., The morning was a fine one, and the bay was

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of craft flled with of whom also occupicd every avatlable view- p()int on shore. When, soon after eight o'clock, it was scen that thc vessel had from her hist, and that her masts were upright once more, much cnthusiasm was manifested. Then after some 2,200 tons displaccment had been cifected by the pumps, the ship, with its arcat superstructure, slowly began to risc. The stern lifted first, and, b} ten o'clock was g ft. above the water. Then the bows began to rise, being slowly drageed from tl]L, soft bottom in which were - bedded. Now, as the water left the interior, and. with the rise of the vessel, the decks

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became visible from the scafiolding, the ship was slowly towed in toward the shore. 2\ view of some parts of the supcerstructure at about this time is represented in the photograph reproduced.

At cleven o'clock a strong wind s sprang up, and pumping had to be suspended for a while. Tt was resumed, however, and by the end of the day the Clopra had been raised from a dcpth of 7 1t. of water to one of 28 {t. only

After this the superstructure (which was 3to ft. long) was taken down, and the were transterred to the deck. A

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photograph, which we reproduce, well represents a scene on the deck at this stage of the operations, a winch and cable-chain clogeged with weed and rust, and the tem- porary structure m course of taking down., With the pumps on the deck thu1 the (lopra was cntirely pumpced out, and was towed into shallow water and beached on a suitable Hh()(l] for clearing out. The decks, and such of the inside of thg vessel as was visible from them, presented an extraordi- nary and weird spcctack It was at first impossible to descend into the lower parts, where lay many dead bodies, on account of the daadly gas generated by these and the dncompnscd cargo. To get rid of this,