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Scientific American, Vol. 76, No. 8 (1897) (1897)

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and it is burg, N. Y. highest plants known on this globe, is a gigantic assisted in this by several transverse walls of sheet The pumping machinery for emptying the dock is seaweed, the nereocystis, the stem of which has been piling. located in a building near the dock entrance. It was found to… … covers the water. This is of special interest. It is the largest in the world, ex- gigantic weed grows in OF TRIPLE SCREWS. ceeding that at the en- such quantities that near trance to Puget Sound the shore large meadow- dock. It is shaped like a double-ended boat, its length like islands are…

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