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Excerpt from Thompson's Island Beacon, Vol. 6: A Private Home-Training School Dependent Upon Donations and Requests
A spring is over to the north end of our Island and it empties into the harbor on the east. Some years ago there was a ditch for the water to flow in but it was gradually filled in and the water would 'spread around for several feet. In the fall the wind blows leaves into it. Which decaying, made a very bad odor, and also made the water impure. We have now dug a ditch two and one-half feet deep and a foot and one half wide and have laid a drain. To begin with, we laid two long stones parallel with the ditch with a space between them. Then we laid stones cross ways on top of these and so on to the end. We have put seaweed on top of that and have covered all with 'dirt. This makes a kind of a pipe and is used in many cases. The water keeps coming and so keeps pure. The spring is triangular in shape, each side being five feet long, and one and one - half feet deep.
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