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the straits into Captain's Harbor and the other jams ashore on the small island and on Amaknak to the NW of the tide guage. At 11. P.M the latter was all right but the gale was increasing in fury and rendered it impossible to go to it or I should have removed the instruments as I feared the ice would carry it away. This morning my apprehensions proved too well founded for the crib was crushed & the house overturned and carried ashore.

I go there immediately in the large boat and we succeed in fishing out the selfregistering guage soaked with salt water and seal oil from the float box. The only injuries it had apparently sustained were the breaking of the pendulum and hour hand of the clock and some wrenching of the woodwork. The register of the last month though wet was safe and still legible. The mercurial barometer still hung to its peg
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Amaknak is correct