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and harder at noon. Go ashore at 8:30 find the lowest low water. Two feet and a half below the zero of staff. Yesterday it was about six inches lower. The highest mark on the rocks of algae + other marine vegetation denoting highest water stood at 7 on the staff so that the extreme range of the tides here would be about ten feet and may reach 12. The rise and fall at present are between 7+8 feet. Find a number of interesting invertebrates on the rocks usually confined to deep water a bidark from Red Cove visits us in the A.M. P.M. still raining hard, take the large boat and examine the north side of Popoff Island. Get a number of fossils. Return wind dies away, spend evening in putting up + arranging specimens.
9 P.M. Fresh SW wind, clear, or nearly so, bar.29.980.

-Thursday June 25-
Ther.48.5.57.44. Cloudy high W by S wind. Bar.29.920. Quite a high sea running. Go ashore + run the shore line from Bluff signal to some distance below Arch Rock and return to vessel about 1.30 PM