William H. Dall - Field Notes, 1880 (1 of 2)

The year 1880 saw William H. Dall traveling again, this time as part of the United States Coast Survey. The survey addressed both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, however Dall's locus of activity was the Alaska and the North Pacific. Since 1865, this region had held Dall's interest, when as part of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition's science corps he began to explore and develop an scientific understanding of the largely unknown region. Please help us transcribe what Dall describes as "Notebook No. 1" of his two volume 1880 field notes. In his typical, narrative style, he notes group activities, destinations, weather readings, specimens, the terrain at various locations along with some discussion of the composition of Alaskan population and indigenous farming.