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[[line]][[strikethrough]] Saturday [[/strikethrough]] Tuesday Feb. 6 [[line]] NE gale with rain & snow. Bar. 29.300. Cannot visit tide guage in A.M. Gale continues all day evening Bar. 29.322. Ther. 40 Max. 37 Min. 34 [[line]] Wednesday Feb. 7. [[line]] Ther. 37. Max. 38. Min 33. Bar. 29.322 NE gale. cloudy. Wind a little more northerly and rain ceased Visit tide guage which had stopped from the rain beating in through the crevices & wetting the paper. Evening wind in the old quarter, rain, snow, & sleet. Bar. 29.330 [[line]] Thursday Feb. 8 [[line]] Bar. 29.438. Ther. 38. Max 38. Min 33.5 Wind ESE fresh all day with rain & squalls. The sun breaks through for a moment once or twice. [[line]] Feb. 9. 1872 [[line]] [[left margin vertical note]] Bury Thermometer [[/margin]] Bar. 29.732. Ther. 36. Max 39. Min 32 1/2 Half cloudy wind ENE fresh. Some snow last night. Wind goes round to N. Clears. Go up to Spithead to take angles but wind is so high that we can do nothing. Return & in P.M. take telemetric observations in small harbor. finish by 5 P.M. 9 P.M. bar. 29.850. wind NW moderate [[end page]] [[start page]] Unga 71 men. 82 women. Popoffsky 4 men 4 women Korovinsky 23 men 15 women. St Paul Id. 108 men. 116x women. St George Id. 53 men. 70 women. Attu. 117 men. 107 women. 1871 941 men all islands 972 women 27 male births 17 females 25 deaths male 32 women 7 deaths from Pleurisy & 9 from pneumonia the others from various causes not over 4 each Atka 346 (1871) men & women.
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Geographic names checked: Feb. 9 entry - Spithead.
On right hand page: Unga, Popoffsky, Korovinsky, St Paul Id., St George Id., Attu, Atka