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the voyage from San Francisco. Found the U.S.S. Jamestown stationed in the Western anchorage.
The past season in reported to have been very severe throughout this Territory and much snow still remains on the tops and sides of mountains. Commander Beardslee of the Jamestown and several residents of Sitka came onboard. Evening calm with light rain.

[[line]] Saturday May 29/80 [[line]]

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Time   | Barom. | Therm. | Water | Wind
6 A.M. | 30.32  | 43     |  44   |  S.
12 M.  | 30.39  | 51     |  48   |  SW.
6 P.M. | 30.30  | 51     |  48   |  S.
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Light wind and delightful weather, warm during day and cool at night. Similar weather is said to have been experienced during the last two months, but last winter is reported to have been unprecedented here in severity. The thermometer (rarely falling below zero) on several occasions reached 10° below; snow (seldom exceeding three to six inches in depth at one time and soon disappearing) covered the Parade Ground three feet deep. 
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Mr. Wm. H. Dall not having arrived from San Francisco by steamers via Portland Oregon, & the inland passages and Mr. Marcus Baker being absent, field work at this place is interrupted.
Mr. Baker having preceded the party, coming by the above mentioned route, arrived at Sitka on the 11th inst. and carried on field work until the 20th when he availed himself of a fortunate opportunity to visit the Chilkaht country in the interest of the Coast Survey, taking instruments &c with him. By request of miners, sojourning at this place during the winter, Commander Beardslee of the U.S.S. Jamestown dispatched a launch with four officers and seventeen men to the Chilkaht River via Lynn Canal for the purpose of conciliating the Indians of that region. More than 20 miners accompanied the launch party intending to prospect the country, a portion to go as far as the headwaters of the river Yukon and others to Copper River.
Sitka shows evidences of increasing prosperity owing in part to the miners who make this a wintering place. Several

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