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[Handwritten inscription in pencil, u.r.: 1005; illegible handwritten inscription in pencil, u.l.]

-1168- / 1860.

* * * Accept my thanks for your polite attention in
sending me the His. Soc. Vol., which I received with your package
early in June.

Have you Col. Graham's report for last year and his water
level observations? I was surprised to find he thinks he is the
first to have discovered the Lake Michigan tide. It is rather ex-
traordinary that the quantity he fives in 1859,for the rise and
fall is so close to yours determined ten years previously. * * *

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Respectfully yours,

Geo. T.Meade.
Capt. Top. Eng.

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