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with showers and intervals of sunshine. Wind light to fresh.  Observations for time latitude, declination and intensity. Several canoes of King's Isand people come off to us.

[[line]] Thursday Sept 9. 1880 [[line]]

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Time.   | Barom. | Dct. Ther. | Dry b. | Wet b. | Water.| Wind.
4 A.M.  | 29.74  | 41         | 43     | 43.0   | 46.5  | NW
8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]]    |   .74  | 40         | 42     | 41.5   | 47.5  | NE
12 M    |   .76  | 44         | 45     | 44.5   | 48.0  | E
4 P.M.  |   .72  | 43.5       | 47     | 46.5   | 48.5  | NNW
8 " [[ditto for: P.M.]]    |   .74  | 39.5       | 42.5   | 41.5   | 44    | " [[ditto for: NNW]]
12 " [[ditto for: P.M.]]   |   .76  | 37         | 41.5   | 41.0   | 45    | " [[ditto for: NNW]]
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Weather cloudy, later a little sunshine.  Wind at first very light, afterward moderate to fresh Sail from Port Clarence at 10.45 A.M. for the Diomedes. See Kings Island clearly from the entrance.  It is rounded and highest toward the NW end.  Thence it slopes gently toward the SE. The extreme SE. end being a little higher than the intervening land.  The shores mostly bluff.

[[line]] Friday Sept. 10/80 [[line]]

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4 A.M.  | 29.77  | 37.5       | 39.0   | 38.5   | 43.5  | NNW
8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]]    |   .78  | 38.5       | 41.0   | 40.5   | 44.0  | " [[ditto for: NNW]]
12 M.   |   .77  | 41.5       | 42.5   | 42.0   | 44.7  | " [[ditto for: NNW]]
4 P.M.  |   .76  | 40.5       | 40.5   | 40.0   | 44.5  | " [[ditto for: NNW]]
8  " [[ditto for: P.M.]]   |   .75  | 36.5       | 38.0   | 37.5   | 37.0  | " [[ditto for: NNW]]
12 " [[ditto for: P.M.]]   |   .77  | 36         | 38.5   | 38.0   | 36.0  | " [[ditto for: NNW]]
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Morning sky with broken clouds. Afternoon cloudy.  Wind early fresh, later strong gales about 7 A.M. come to anchor off the SE end of the Big Diomede. Baker and Noyes go ashore at the snowfilled mouth of a steep gulley, the only place where a landing could be had on this side.  Obs. for time, latitude azimuth, dip and intensity.  From the ship obs. of currents surface and subsurface temperatures and bearings on adjacent land.  The Diomedes are granitic mounds with sides worn to cliffs by the action of the sea, without beaches, the shores fringed with enormous waterworn boulders.  A few gullies convey the melting snow from their irregular but nearly uniformly high tops.  Here are the only landing places, and partly on the accumulated talus in the largest gulley and partly by digging away behind this, a settlement of hardy Eskimo has established itself on each island.  That on the little Diomede is said to be the largest, it is on the south end of the island. About thirty natives came off to us in three canoes from there.  There is

Transcription Notes:
Geographic names checked: King's/Kings Island; Port Clarence, Diomedes; Big Diomede; Little Diomede. Personal names: Baker & Noyes. 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