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___________ Monday Dec 18 __________
Bar. 30.380. Ther. 39. min. 25. Wind in A.M. none. Toward noon NE light P.M. strong, north.
Ice which had formed quite thickly on small harbor, begins to break up -
Take the boat & five men & go to the various signal stations repairing damages done by the gale of the 16th Baileys, Round Top and Rocky Point signals all down, were set up again, the others were all right. The wind appeared to have lifted the signals bodily out of the ground as the holes were not enlarged or the stays, except one, broken - Evening cloudy with a good deal of haze & high wind. Back to vessel by dark.

__________ Tuesday Dec. 19 ____________
[[strikethrough]][[boxed]] 380 [[/boxed]] [[boxed]] 34 [[/boxed]][[boxed]] 24 [[/boxed]] [[/strikethrought]]
Bar. 30.280. Ther. 37. 34. Wind Lt S.E.
[[Go?]] ashore & test telemeter carefully. 20 units between both wires correspond to 20 meters and two units are included between the lower wires at a distance of 13 feet 1 inch. both distances [[from?]] one foot in advance of the 
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Example L
170 between lower wires
[[calculation]]
170
  2
_______
340.000
   .729
_______
Result 339.271
[[/calculation]]

[[calculation]]
.Ø06085
    17Ø 
__________
     35
    56
   00
0042
_________
.42595
 6085
________
1.034450
 .304794
________
 .729656
[[/calculation]]

 13 ft = 3.96283 meters } = 3.98783 meters
 1 inch= 0.02550 meters } = 2 units betw L wires

This gives us constants -
1 unit between [[strikethrough]] upp [[/strikethrough]] both wires
= 1 meter -
1 unit between lower wires
= 1.993915 meters
use therefore for lower wires
1 unit = to 2 meters less 0.006085
meters for every unit subtended. to which 
total the sum of 0.304794 is to be added for the 
focal correction making the true distance