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and SE with heavy rain & high wind, ice broken up & disappears_ Bar. fall to 28.930 _
__________Friday Dec.15 ____________
Bar.28.494. Ther. 44. min.25. Gale with rain, from S & E_ vexing the compass by fits & starts. Very high tide exceeding the limit of the gauge for some two hours & a half.
Gale all day of varying intensity with torrents of rain.
_________Saturday Dec. 16 ___________
Bar. 29.131. Ther. 35. min 24 - SE Gale diminishing. It blew with a great fury at times during the night and the vessel dragged to the north west three or four lengths though having both anchors and 120 fathoms of chain on each out. Cloudy with hail squalls_
Several Signals blown down Roofs off several houses in the village. boats & water casks flown away from the beach P.M. cants more northerly and lightens Evening blue lights visible on shore
________Sunday Dec 17 _____________
Bar. 29.838. Ther.31. min.29. Calm clear. Small harbor freezing over. Finding a constant difference between the height is measured on the staff
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