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48 [[line]] Thursday July 1st/80 [[line]] [[page includes tables with 7 columns - "|" used to better distinguish separate column fields for readability.]] [[table]] [[Table headings:]] Time. | Bar. | Dct. Ther. | Dry b. | Wet b. | Water | Wind 6 A.M. | 30.18 | 48 | 49 1/2 | 49 | 47 | NE 12 M. | 16 | 55 1/2 | 61 1/2 | 58 | 55 | Calm 6 P.M. | 10 | 50 | 52 1/2 | 52 | 48 1/2 | SW. [[/table]] Morning nearly clear. Later clears away. Evening perfectly clear and calm. Observations for time latitude and azimuth (astr. & mag.) all very good. Sent the boat out fishing. Get several halibut and a good many of the large crabs, which are excellent eating. Try the seine and get several barrels of small herring. Work over notebooks and records in P. M. [[line]] Friday July 2nd [[line]] [[table]] 6 A.M. | 29.98 | 44 1/2 | 46 | 45 1/2 | 48 | NE 12 M. | .92 | 50 1/2 | 51 1/2 | 51 | 48 | Calm 6 P.M. | .88 | 50 | 52 1/2 | 53 1/2 | 48 1/2 | Baffling [[/table]] Morning overcast, calm; P.M. overcast wind very light, and about 5 o'clock begins to rain but this ceases later in the evening. Take the large cutter and proceed to the spit infront of the largest glacier visible; in the morning. Walk about three miles over a gravel flat or plain which [[end page]] [[start page]] 49 descends in a gentle slope from the foot of the ice to the sea and is cut up with watercourses of which all but one or two are dry. Ascend the glacier for a short distance and return to the boat saw many bear tracks. One of the party killed a porcupine. From the spit take a number of angles and bearings to correct the chart of the bay. The height of the station is 24 ft. 6 in. above the water. Instrument U.S.C.S. Theodolite no. 122. We call the station Glacier Spit. [[light pencil]] 17 1/2 [[/light pencil]] General direction of the beach S 60 1/2 E Point in small bight to eastward S 43 E Hor. angle 0°.0'.0'. Point on opposite shore of bight S 41 E further in 2°.02' Opposite Head of bight, South, 44°.47' Pt. same shore further on S 26 3/4 W. 72°.13' Inner edges islet beyond S. 30 W. 75.53 Outer " " " [[dittos for: edges islet beyond]] S. 31 W. 76.49 Main shore beyond is nearly in one with this islet. Rock beyond S 33 1/2 W 78° 13' End of Coal Pt at water's edge S 49 1/2 W 94 14 1st of the seven trees on the Pt. S 51 W 96 33 7th tree S 51 1/2 W 97 01
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