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[[image - hand-drawn in ink]] The rocker can I think be improved by placing it on a sounding cavity Dr Torry made a rocker by placing a vessel of copper two feet high (a cylinder 8 inches high) on the flat top of a stove. I think it was fild with water Left Boston on Friday night on 12th stormy passage on the sound compared with Capt Simmons of the Metropolis [[end page]] [[start page]] [[page number in pencil]] 71 The colza oil sent from the west is not good Mr Congden & Mr Goodwin both complain of its burning quality Monday 15th [[insertion]] Oct 66 [[/insertion]] [[underlined]] The Staten Island [[/underlined]] Capt Simmons said he preferred a bell for Point Judith but would call an old pilot who had been 30 years in the service This pilot being asked what signal
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colza oil & Point Judith - name checked