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_____Wednesday Mar. 13, 72______
Ther. 35   Max 38   Min. 32   Bar. 29.940
Cloudy, squally, threatening rain - wind fresh SE.  Blows very hard - try telemetric obs. on SW side Amaknak but are driven in big snowstorm.  P. M. wind goes to NE and back to SE with rain. 10 P M.  bar. 29.540.

______Thursday Mar. 14________
Ther. 36   Max. 40   Min 36.  Bar 29.476 -
Cloudy, rainy wind squally SE. In 1868 a whaling vessel stove in the ice off Cape St. Thaddeus drifted ashore in Seniavine straits - shortly after the ice passed out of the latter - says Chapman. Also in 1871 late in May ice broke up off Plover Bay leaving the sea navigable there and by the middle of June any vessel might have sailed there had she been able to cut through the floe ice to the S & W.  The ice opens sooner on the W side of St. Lawrence Id than on the E & SE.  Bar. 10 P.M. 29.620

_____Friday, Mar. 15_____
Ther. 38  Max. 48  Min. 36  Bar.29.800
Wind S. fresh.  Passing clouds with snow flurries occasionally but light and short.  Work oven telem. on SE side Amaknak all day.  P.M. cloudy wind SSE 
8 P.M. Bar. 29.810
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Transcription Notes:
Geographical names checked: Mar 13: Amaknak. Mar 14: Cape St. Thaddeus; Seniavine Straits; Plover Bay; St. Lawrence Id. Mar. 15: Amaknak.