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[[line]] Wednesday Sept. 1st/80 [[line]]

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Time.  | Bar.  | Ther. | Dry b. | Wet b. |Water | Wind
4 A.M. | 29.46 | 43.5  | 45     | 45     | 47.5 | W
12 M.  |   .59 | 45.0  | 48     | 48     | 48.0 | Squally
8 P.M. |   .64 | 44.5  | 45     | 45     | 47.5 | W by S
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Weather cloudy with glimpses of sun.  wind fresh making a choppy sea, to avoid which we weigh anchor at 9.30 A.M. and stand across under the lee of Choris Peninsula, where it is not much better.  Anchor there about 10.30 A.M. Work on Monthly Reports & journals. Send the boat ashore for water but it proves not good.  Wind too high for field work.  Rains in P.M. 

[[line]] Thursday Sept 2nd [[line]]

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4 A.M. | 29.68 | 44    | 44     | 44.5   | 47.5 | W by S
12 M.  |   .75 | 44    | 46     | 45.5   | 49.5 | SW
8 P.M. |   .76 | 44.5  | 47     | 47.0   | 49.0 | " [[ditto for: SW]]
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Weather cloudy with showers in A.M. Half clear in P.M. Wind puffy, fresh to moderate. Tide low at 10 A.M. high at 4 P.M. Rise & fall between three and four feet.  Take the vessel over toward the main shore and anchor there before [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] breakfast.  About 10:15 start in the large cutter for the shore with the intention of viewing the celebrated
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ice cliffs first described by Kotzebue.  Land on a small low point near some old huts and proceed along the beach about a mile, the banks or bluffs being chiefly of volcanic breccia or a slaty rock of gneissoid texture.  They were from fifty to fifteen feet in height above the sea, rising into low hilly slopes behind; nowhere rising into peaks, and probably nowhere over 600 feet in height. A change then took place in the character of the banks.  From reddish volcanic rock they changed into a grayish clay largely intermixed with vegetable matter; in places intermixed, in other places forming a stratum in the clay.  Near the beginning of these clay banks, where they were quite low, i.e. not rising to a brow of over 20 feet, one layer of sphagnum containing marl of freshwater shells (among which were Pisidium and Valvata) was noticed.  This layer was some six inches thick. The clay was of a very tough consistency, and though wet did not yield much, under the feet.  The breaking of the 

Transcription Notes:
Geographic names checked: Choris Peninsula; Kotzebue. See transcription center p. 5 of this project (p. 1 in notebook) for how to transcribe dittos, model for tables: https://transcription.si.edu/transcribe/6983/SIA-SIA2014-05216