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[[line]] Tuesday April 30th 1872 [[line]]
Ther. 36. 38 34.  Bar. 29.900  Cloudy, some hail squalls.  Wind fresh NNW.  Later Heavy snowstorm  9 P.M. Bar. 30.000.

[[line]] Wednesday May 1, 1871 [[line]]
Ther. 35. 42. 32.  Bar. [[strike through]] 29[[/strike through]] 30.060.  Cloudy, snowing.  Wind light W.  Snows all day.  P.M. Bar. 30.188  

[[line]] Thursday May 2 [[line]]
Ther. 41. 42. 32. Bar. 29.984 Cloudy snowing lightly at intervals Calm.  P.M. wind fresh SE var. falling. more snow.  Evening SE very strong with melting snow  Bar. 29.624.

[[line]] Friday May 3 [[line]]
Ther. A.M. 37. 44. 35.  Cloudy some rain.  Bar. 29.200.  SE wind fresh with calm intervals.  Observations on the today current setting in through S Amaknak straits develop the fact that it now runs at about the rate of 3 knots an hour.  The float passed over a line 270 feet long in one minute, when the flood tide was coming in with it's greatest rapidity.  Capt. Hennig in the Hutchinson in 1869 bound for St Michaels in June encountered field ice
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Transcription Notes:
Geographical names checked: May 3: S Amaknak straits; St. Michaels. Other names: Capt. Hennig, Hutchinson