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There is a passage at high water over a sandbar connecting Beehive and Halleck islands. A short distance beyond the SW. point of the latter in Olga Strait [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] a fine cascade pours over a high bluff apparently from a basin in the hills. This is permanent throughout the year.
  The marble ledge in Little Noquashinski Bay is on the Baranoff shore. On the west it adjoins a mass of the greenish (dioritic ?) rock common about Sitka and the dip seemed nearly perpendicular. The ledge was visible for about 100 ft and after that was covered with dead trees and living vegetation for an unknown distance. It was of fine grain, rather soft, with little discoloration and with bold water close up to the beach.
 Reach the Yukon on our return about 6 P.M. work over records in the evening.

[[line]] Sunday June 13th 1880 [[line]]

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[[table]]
Time   | Bar.  | Dct. Ther.| Dry b. | Wet b.  | Water | Wind.
6 A.M. | 29.76 |     45    | 46 1/2 |   46    | 46 1/2| Calm
12 M.  |   .70 |     52    | 56     |   56    | 49 1/2| SW
6 P.M. |   .60 |     49    | 49     |   48 1/2| 48 1/2| " [[ditto for: SW]]
[[/table]]

Overcast and foggy, threatening rain.
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[[line]] Monday June 14 /80 [[line]]

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[[table]]
Time   | Bar.  | Dct. Ther.| Dry b. | Wet b.  | Water | Wind.
6 A.M. | 29.54 |     46    | 48 1/2 |   48    |  48   | E
12 M.  |   .64 |     48 1/2| 50     |   49 1/2| 48    | W
6 P.M. |   .68 |     48 1/2| 5[[overwritten]]0 [[/overwritten]]1 1/2|   51| 48 | W
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Morning rainy, prepare for work but are stopped by rain. P.M. rain ceases, and we go ashore and complete a series of observations for transferring our astronomical and magnetic station from the parade ground in the town where it is inconveniently situated, to a spot near the old Russian observatory now the store house for the Government coal. Finish by 5 P.M. Father Metropolsky of the Greek church and Capt. & Mrs. Beardslee call on board in the evening.

[[line]] Tuesday June 15th [[line]]

[[table]]
6 A.M. | 29.70 |     45    | 48     |   47 1/2| 47 1/2| NE.
12 M.  |   .80 |     50    | 52 1/2 |   52    | 49    | SE
6 P.M. |   .84 |     51    | 57     |   42    | 51    | NE.
[[/table]]

Morning showery. Afternoon fine, clear. In the morning Mr. Baker goes ashore for time sights and after getting two, returns with a wetting. At work trying to improve theodolite which is in some respects defective and over accounts. After midday weather clears. Obs.

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See pp. 5 & 7 for how to transcribe dittos, suggestions on tables.