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[[line]] Saturday Mar. 16. 1872 [[line]] Ther. 36. Max 49 Min 36 Bar. 29.720 Fair, with passing clouds Wind lt. S. 265 on telemeter coincides with 9.5 on staff. Then level center of telescope is 6 ft. 1 3/4 in above 9.5 √ 1 [[bracket]] S41 E .43 1/2 B. 172 1/2 is bisected by middle wire on beach- Theodolite center at this station is 13 3/4 in above it. [[/bracket]] 2 [[bracket]] Next station 162 1/2 middle wire S63 E 70 B on grass between old Aleut houses middle wire at this station 9 3/4 in above 162.5 [[/bracket]] 3 [[bracket]] Next 130 mid wire S 64 1/2 E 48B Level of theod 1/2 in below that of last D at this one on grass on flat [[/bracket]] 4 [[curly bracket]] Next middle 266 S63 1/4 E. 62B. 4 ft 7 in. Clothes line [[bracket]] 5 [[curly bracket]] Next 672 3/4 65 2/B E 40B 4 ft 8 3/4.Just beyond Hennigs house. [[/bracket]] Next 250 on church NW Corner S58 1/2 E (45B) 250 is 6 1/2 in above bench mark 6 Sight to beach 49 1/2 B. Vert 5°.59'|15 ft 3 3/10 in N 26 1/2 East. Rev. to edge of bank of brook 16B Vert. 1°.27' _ Take a set of altitudes for time in A.M. recording for Harrington. Then correlate the bench marks as above. P.M. run the line of the beach with telemeter to Albatross Δ and return to altitudes. [[end page]] [[start page]] But we are prevented from obtaining the rest by clouds. Day partly fair, with one heavy snowsquall at noon. Passing clouds in P.M. & A.M. closes cloudy. 9 P.M. bar. 29.700 wind SE [[calculation:]] 6 ft 1 3/4 in 1 . 1 3/4 in 0.9 3/4 in ------------- 8. 2'-1/2 = 8.1 1/2 [[calculation:]] 15.7.75 1.1.75 9.9.75 4.6.50 4.2.25 -------- 26.04.0 above zero [[calculation:]] 15.4.16 6.8.40 ------- 22.00.56 [[calculation:]] 4.7 4.8 3/4 ------- 17.5 1/4 6 1/2 ------- 16.10 [[strikethrough]] 3/4 [[/strikethrough]] above 9.5 9.06 ------ 26.04 [[strikethrough]] 3/4 [[/strikethrough]] Bench mark on church is above 0 of staff 26 ft. 04 [[strikethrough]] 3/4 [[/strikethrough]] in Same is above our bench mark on rock Iliuliuk Harbor 13 ft. 04 [[strikethrough]] 1/4 [[/strikethrough]] in [[left margin - vertical line]] Height of church mark above 6 ft 7/10 on staff approximately = 15 ft .416 by water level less reliable than the other [[/left margin]]
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names checked: March 16, left hand page: line 10: Aleut houses; line 19: Hennigs house; line 27: Harrington; line 30 (last line) Albatross.
Geographical name checked: right hand page: Iliuliuk Harbor