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-ing it too short have to run it up onto the top of the hill quite a distance from shore which we must mark by a new signal. Day dull and damp. Find a grouses nest with a lot of eggs. Get several good shells on the sand point. P.M. bar.30.080

Friday, June 21
A.M. Cloudy, foggy, rainy. Ther 44.1/2 48. 46 Bar, 30.060. P.M. clears up fine and calm or very light W wind cloudy again in evening. Erect a signal on the hill, Hill station and remeasure the distance from it to Bluff signal and from that to sand point; take a series of angles at Bluff signal to compute a base by the formula for a "broken base". Take two series of angles from Sand Point station and return to vessel at 6 P.M. 9 P.M. Bar.30.140. Proof of baseline today comes out within half a meter of yesterdays results. Observe tidal current through the strait when in the early part of the flood runs at the rate of 2 1/2 feet per second- more rapidly in the narrows where a small chop of sea is caused but no rips of consequence

Transcription Notes:
Is there an -ing at the start? I haven't yet checked the previous page to check if the -ing is part of a word typed there. yes Not sure about what is after the "A" and before "Cloudy" after the June 21 heading. He occasionally capitalizes certain points (Bluff, Sand) and at other times doesn't. I've copied what he's written. Some of his periods look like dashes. I typed them as periods.