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

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e, 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 grow as much as 300 feet long, says the Min- That this… … covers the water. This is of special interest. It is CBTJISEB COLUMBIA IN DEY DOCK NO. 2, BBOOKLYN NAVY YAED, SHOWING THE ABBANGEMENT the largest in the world, ex- gigantic weed grows in OF TBIFLE SCBEWS. ceeding that at the en- such quantities that near trance to Puget Sound the shore large…

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