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P.P.S next morning.

I am posting you to-day a picture of that mosaic work from Shellal. It will give you an idea of the shape and size of the floor, but it does not show up the beauty and fineness of the mosaic work as I hoped it should.

The photos I sent home did so better than this drawing I think.

I had my helio station set up just about where the lion is nearly all the time the man was making this drawing and I saw each original piece as he drew it. At the same time he did not get there till a month or so after it was found and a lot of it had been taken away in that time by the curio fiends. I could notice how fast it

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