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[[line]] Friday July 23rd 1880 [[line]]

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Time.  |  Barom.  |  Ther.  |  Dry b.  |  Wet b.  |  Water  | Wind.
6 A.M. | 29.97    |    48   |    48    |   48     |  46     |   N
12 M.  | 30.01    |    53   |    55    | 54       | 47     |  SSE
6 P.M. | 30.02    | 56 1/2  |    54    | 54       | 47     | " [[ditto for: SSE]]
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Morning foggy, wind light. Later the fog rises and becomes so thin that the sun is visible through it. Get obs. for latitude, time, azimuth dip and intensity from a station at top of beach on the edge of a grassy flat; in front of the town which is situated on a moderately high bluff bank behind this flat. There is a high very steep ridge immediately behind the village; a low flat, with a stream, to the eastward, and a mountain, trending with the Iliasik Ids. immediately beyond this flat.
From a station on the top of the bluff, just beyond the village get a series of angles and bearings on surrounding objects, somewhat interfered with by fog. Population here half a dozen whites, a few Russians & creoles and 350 Aleuts, the adult males all hunters.
The town is built of wood with few barraboras and a fine church is going up at the expense of the natives. Frost is agent & 
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has his wife and four children here. A creole named Pavloff and the Western Fur and Trading Co. have establishments here for trading beside the A.C.C.:
The landing is very bad at low water being a boulder beach an eighth of a mile wide between the sand beach and water enough to float a boat. In rough weather a boat cannot land. Kelp extends off a third of a mile. They grow a few turnips but being all hunters or traders take little interest in agriculture. The rock here is a breccia of trachyte.
Notes. There is a vein of good coal on the eastern head of Pavloff Bay.
The extraordinary pinnacles seen yesterday in the midst of the Alaskan mountains are nearest to the head of Medvidniekoff Bay between ˄ [[insertion]] the hills at the head of [[/insertion]] which and the pinnacles (called Aghileen) is a glacier. They are at the SE. edge of a crater visible from the N. side of Aliaska and are inaccessible.
A rock of doubtful existence, called Hennig's rock was reported by him in Lat. 54.22 20". Lon. 163°.03'1/2 No one else has seen or heard of it and the navigators hereabouts do not believe in its existence.

Transcription Notes:
See pp. 5 & 7 for how to transcribe dittos, suggestions on tables. Iliasik Ids. is correct