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St. Michaels.

Old boathouse in with Stepanoffs house
2 1/4 fms [[superscript]] half tide [[/superscript]] - 600-700 yards off shore.

Half way from Sledge Id to Cape Nome a spot of colored water seen. Natives assert that rocks exist there.

Reef off elbow of Pt Spencer. The Carlotta struck in 1871 in 13 ft and in 72 Eustace struck outside of this in 9 ft - rocky about 1 3/4 mile off shore. Winter houses on the beach. abeam, running the coast. Shoal near Cape Thompson in 9 ft.

Shoal about twelve miles south of Nunivak with 2 1/4 fms on it & 11 fms inside.

Shoal said to be to the S-east of St Laurence with about 14 ft out of sight of land.

[[strikethrough]] Shoal off [[/strikethrough]] Wainright inlet S point extends further off than charts give say 1 1/2 miles. Several vessels been ashore

Dont want to go inside of a line Cape York on with N Head of Port Clarence. Bay here with rocks Brig Pfeil lost here
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[[image - sketch of shoreline; marks on drawing include 7 8; 2 or L or Z?; B; 0? 2]]
[[label on drawing:]]
tides 4 ft
Sun Golovin
anchorage 1/2 mile wide -

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Note: Brig Pfeil is name. fms = Dall abbreviation for "fathoms." Geographic names checked/verified, with questions in [[?]]: St Michaels, Sledge Id, Cape Nome, Pt Spencer, Cape Thompson, Nunivak, St Lawrence or St Laurence (variant names of same place), Wainright Inlet (Dall mistranscription for Wainwright), Cape York, Port Clarence, [[Sun? – maybe Dall version of Zund i.e. Sound?]] Golovin