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82 [[line]] Wednesday Aug. 18/80 [[line]] [[page includes tables with 7 columns - "|" used to better distinguish separate column fields for readability.]] [[table]] [[table headings:]] Time. | Barom. | Ther. | Dry b. | Wet b. | Water. | Wind. 4 A.M. | 29.58 | 41 | 42 | 42 1/2 | 44 | NNW 8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]] | .59 | 44 1/2 | 46 | 46 | 45 | " [[ditto for: NNW]] 12 M. | .60 | 50 | 49 | 50 | 51 | N 4 P.M. | .61 | 48 | 49 1/2 | 49 1/2 | 49 1/2 | " [[ditto for: N]] 8 " [[ditto for: P.M.]] | .58 | 47 1/2 | 49 1/2 | 49 1/2 | 51 | " [[ditto for: N]] 12 " [[ditto for: P.M.]] | .49 | 47 | 49 | 49 | 50 | " [[ditto for: N]] [[/table]] Weather foggy except an hour or two before sunset. Wind fresh, dead ahead. A strong tide running against it all the P.M. makes a strong choppy sea. Temperature of water rather high. See the Diomedes and get a view of them. The smaller one is inhabited. Fairway Rock is abrupt about 360 feet high, top grassy, no inhabitants or landing place. Work on records [[line]] Thursday Aug 19th [[line]] [[table]] 4 A.M. | 29.50 | 46 1/2 | 48 | 48 | 48 | NNW 8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]] | .48 | 49 | 49 | 49 1/2 | 49 | " [[ditto for: NNW]] 12 M. | .44 | 50 | 51 | 51 | 50 1/2 | " [[ditto for: NNW]] 4 P.M. | .40 | 51 | 51 | 51 1/2 | 51 | Calm 8 " [[ditto for: P.M. | .44 | 50 | 48 1/2 | 49 | 51 | " [[ditto for: Calm]] 12 " | .50 | 50 1/2 | 52 | 52 | 50 1/2 | S [[/table]] Weather fine, warm, foggy in the distance; wind light & adverse. Work over records. Cross the Arctic circle. [[end page]] [[start page]] 83 [[line]] Friday Aug. 20/80 [[line]] [[page includes table with 7 columns - "|" used to better distinguish separate column fields for readability.]] [[table]] [[table headings:]] Time. | Barom. | Ther. | Dry b. | Wet b. | Water. | Wind. 4 A.M. | 29.51 | 48 | 49 | 49 1/2 | 50 | SW 8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]] | .60 | 47 1/2 | 47 1/2 | 45 | 4[[appears to be a 9 overwritten by a 5]] | " [[ditto for: SW]] 12 M. | .70 | 48 1/2 | 47 1/2 | 48 | 49 | SSW 4 P.M. | .77 | 46 1/2 | 48 1/2 | 48 1/2 | 49 | SSE 8 " [[ditto for: P.M.]] | .82 | 46 | 47 1/2 | 47 1/2 | 47 1/2 | " [[ditto for: SSE]] 12 " [[ditto for: P.M.]] | .89 | 46 | 48 1/2 | 48 1/2 | 48 | " [[ditto for: SSE]] [[/table]] Strong fair wind all day; sky overcast with some fog. Pass point Hope at 3.15 P.M. It is a long low gravel spit with numerous stages, caches, graves & moundlike Eskimo houses scattered along it. There is a stiff current & rip at the end but no shoal or reef as far as visible. The village at this season is empty the natives being engaged in fishing elsewhere. The chart gives a current of 1 1/2 - 2 knots to the westward and northward and three knots to the northward around Pt. Hope, but this is not constant and is chiefly due to tide and wind for Mr. McDonald informs me that both he and Capt. Smithers of the Vigilant experienced in 1879 in July, or the early part of August an equally strong
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See pp. 5 & 7 for how to transcribe dittos, suggestions on tables.
