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Allen the miner tells me that he heard the peice of timber spoken of but he did not see it. He heard only that there was a doubt whether it had ever been worked by a tool or not it was so much worm eaten & decayed.
in Lieut Fowlers journal of The Porpoise under his command Augt 17 1803 the Day on which she was lost in Wreck Reef is the following note,
N.B. Some of the people that first landed found a Spar much worm Eaten also a Part of the Stern Post of some vessel supposed about 400 Tons.
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