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 very soon afterwards died, but not un. til he had told the little he knew"
 And is the money still there? Has nothing been done to recover it?" ''0h, a great deal. There have been repeated attempts extending over many years, and the most serious and sus. tained are in progress at this present time"
 .How much has been got up?"
 Well, in the year immediately follow ing, when the whole thing was fresh, and before the sand had silted or drifted over the wreck, the Dutchmen fshed up some ffty-fye thousand pounds. l Then more systematic and some really costly efforts were made. and by 1857-9 another fifty thousand pounds was recovered. There was good deal of trouble with the Dutch govern ment, but it eventually surrendered to Lloyd's it's claim to royalty; litigation and all sorts of trouble; but now, at last, a fresh start has been made.
 By whom?"
 ''The present operations were begun in 1892 by an English engineer, Mr. ] Fletcher, who had been engaged on the Dutch coast in raising a sunken 1 dredger. He became interested in the Lutine, and associating himself with another eminent engineer, Mir. Rinip- pic, they have approached the business 1 in novel way Their idea is to clear l the ship of sand, but to inclose her in central area or dock faced by sandbags. which will prevent further sitting, while they ransack the interior of the wreck by divers. This area is two hun dred feet in diameter, from which the sand will be removed by powerful sue 1 tion dredges.
 ''It is calculated that a lesser area of some fifty feet diameter incloses the ship and it's bullion chamber, possibly a much less area; but it is supposed that the chamber has been broken up and it's contents dispersed some dis tance around. No doubt the heavy 1 bars of bullion will have worked deep down into the sand-as the guns must have done, but only two have been re- covered; but they will be found as the 1 sand is removed. Loose coins-many of them will be probably sucked up 1 through the dredging pumps-when deposited on the perforated tables on top the sand will pass freely away, but the coins will be retained. But the bars of gold are what will be looked for most eagerly"
 "Why sop
 Because we believe that the qnes- tion of total value depends upon the number of bars that are to be found. 1 A certain number have been found; this supports the theory that there are many more, and I will tell you why: l All bullion bars bear certain marks. and with each mark goes a series of numbers, say from one to one hundred, or something of that sort. Now, bars with eighteen different marks have been found-marks such as M B., M. L. L., H. S., P. and C., and the rest, and oG each bar besides the mark there is nuueral.
 linus the M. L.L. series has twenty three numbers, some high, some low; on the N. B. there are eighteen num- bers; on the B. B. ten, and so on. The inference is-and the Bank of England is inclined to this view-that all the in- tervening numbers between the lowest and highest found with any alphabet ical mark were put on board the Lutine in 1799
 Unfortunately no direct evidence can be obtained either at the admiralty or banks, nor yet by advertisement as to the actual number and value of the gold and silver bars shipped we are oEly left to conjecture from reasonable premises that a lot of them remain in the wreck. Upon the hypothesis that all the intermediate numbers were sent, there are 245 bars of gold unac- counted for; upon this theory 33o must have been shipped, and we know that So have been found. On the same grounds it is assumed that there are 7e bars of silver in the wreck, 17e hay ing been originally shipped and 97 re- covered"
 Do you expect this latest attempt at recovery to sueceed?n
 Tt ought to do so. I see no reason why it should not. It combats the chief obstacle, the sand-the restlesslv drifting, slow, but always pertinacious sandwich has swallowed up tho ship, it's armament, great guns and au,- munitlon and its precious burthen of l treasure
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