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46

[[line]] Wednesday June 30/80 [[line]]

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Time. | Bar.  | Dct. Ther. | Dry b. | Wet b. | Water | Wind
4 A.M.| 30.04 | 44 1/2     |  47    |  46    | 45 1/2   |Calm
8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]]| | .06 | 45 | 47 | 47 | 46 1/2 | " [[ditto for: Calm]]
12 M. | .10 | 51 | 51 | 50 1/2 | 49 |  SW
6 P.M. | .12 | 52 | 54  | 53 1/2 | 48  |SE
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Weather half cloudy, with occasional light showers nearly all day. A.M. calm or nearly. P.M. quite a squall for a short time, then light again, and clears about sunset.
Anchor near ^ [[insertion]] Coal Pt. [[/insertion]] Chugachik Bay about 5 A.M. in six fms mud. Go ashore and select a station. Obserations for azimuth dip, time & intensity latitude and magnetic azimuth. 
Meet an old native here who informs me that the bay was completely frozen over last winter which was the coldest in his recollection. They have the ordinary salmon here usually by this time (but this is a late season in all things) but the king salmon only further up Cook's Inlet. There are reindeer here but not easily accessible at this season. There are large crabs (Maia) and halibut, but no cod-
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fish except sick ones. Herring in windrows were thrown up on the beach or marshes by a very high tide four days ago  There are four glaciers in sight on the SE side of the Bay, which is of high rugged and broken topography and composed chiefly of metamorphic rocks. The NW side is very uniform, high bluffs forming the edge of a table-land, with talus or low land extending a little toward the bay in front. The shore on this side is very uniform and rather shoal. The coal strata dip to the northward slightly and are intercalated with sandstones shales etc. bearing the impressions of fossil wood & leaves. The largest seam is some seven feet thick with a few thin seams of shale in it. The character of the coal is in general like that at Unga but of a rather better quality and much larger quantity. The shores are well-wooded with spruce alder, birch, poplar etc. The beaches are mostly gravel and show few sea weeds but kelp and very few shells. There is no settlement at Coal Point. 

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