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[[line]] Monday Sept. 13, 1880 [[line]]

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Time.  | Barom. | Ther. | Dry b. | Wet b. | Water. | Wind.
4 A.M. |  29.51 | 32.5  | 39     | 38.5   | 38.5   | E
6  " [[ditto for: A.M.]]  |     -- | 31.5  |        |        |        | 
8  " [[ditto for: A.M.]]  |    .51 | 36    | 39.5   | 39.5   | 39     | " [[ditto for: E]]
12 M.  |    .49 | 41    | 40     | 39.5   | 39     | " [[ditto for: E]]
4 P.M. |    .46 | 42    | 43     | 42.5   | 39     | Calm
8  " [[ditto for: P.M.]]  |    .52 | 33.5  | 41     | 41.0   | 39.5   | N
12 " [[ditto for: P.M.]]  |    .52 | 39.5  | 42.5   | 42.5   | 39.5   | " [[ditto for: N]]
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Weather with some sunshine early in the morning, later cloudy, nearly calm. Obs. for time and magnetic azimuth. Capts. Lapham & Owen come aboard. Capt Owen & Jerningham confirm the experience we have had this year of finding warmer water north of the Strait than south of it, going north early. There are three sets, or currents in the Arctic. One running north from Cape Lisburne along the coast to Pt. Barrow. Another running in the same trend as the land east from Pt. Hope over toward Herald Id., offering an opportunity of getting to the westward, when there is still ice to the southward extending east of the meridian of the Strait. The last runs along the coast from East Cape north and west. 
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There is often a grounded pack around & on Herald shoal with water about it. Capt. Owen reached Pt. Barrow and returned in two hours, narrowly escaping being shut in by the ice which was only six miles off the point and shut in just after he came back around it. The schr. Alaska was the only sailing vessel to get round to the point and she was shut in there (aground) several days. He (Owen) had never been around Pt. Barrow without being shut in several times during his stay. The shoal on Rodgers chart north of St. Matthew he felt sure had no existence, having cruised there a good deal. In going north in the Jireh Perry, in 1879, he had had a ^[[insertion]] sea [[/insertion]] temperature south of the Strait of 37° but on getting north of Cape Lisburne he found it 42°. All agreed that no two seasons were alike in the Arctic, or rather, that no one could form any probable idea of what one season would be from the character of that which preceded it. This relates to the character and move-

Transcription Notes:
Geographic names checked: Cape Lisburne; Pt. Barrow; Pt. Hope; Herald Id.; East Cape; St. Mathew. 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