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[[line]] Monday Sept. 27/80 [[line]]

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Time   | Barom.| Ther.| Dry b. | Web b.| Water | Wind 
4 A.M. | 29.22 | 44.5 | 46     | 46    | 46    | WSW
8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]]   |   .34 | 44   | 45.5   | 45    | 46    | " [[ditto for: WSW
12 M.  |   .48 | 44   | 46     | 46    | 46.5  | " [[Ditto for: WSW]]
4 P.M. |   .54 | 44   | 45     | 45    | 46    | " [[Ditto for: WSW]]
8 " [[ditto for: P.M.]]   |   .54 | 42   | 44     | 43.5  | 46    | " [[ditto for: WSW]]
12 " [[ditto for: P.M.]]  |   .47 | 43.5 | 45     | 44.5  | 45.5  | SSW
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Day cloudy with rain & glimpses of sun. Gale continues but wind shifts and the sea goes down a little. Work impracticable.

Tuesday Sept. 28th

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4 A.M. | 29.16 | 44   | 42   | 41.5 | 45.5 | ESE
8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]]   | 28.84 | 43   | 43.5 | 44.0 | 45.5 | " [[ditto for: ESE]]
12 M.  | 28.31 | 42   | 41   | 40.5 | 40.5 | " [[ditto for: ESE]]
2 P.M. | 28.25 |
4 P.M. | 28.28 | 43.5 | 44   | 44.5 | 44.5 | NE
8 " [[ditto for: P.M.]]   | 28.48 | 41   | 44   | 44   | 43.5 | NNE
12 " [[ditto for: P.M.]]  | 28.70 | 40   | 42.5 | 42   | 43.0 | N.
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Day cloudy with rain and the heaviest gale we have experienced. Barometer reaches 28.25, the lowest recorded in this region (=28.50 per mercurial standard barometer reduced to 32° F.)  In the morning see the western end of Akutan, run over for Captains Bay in very heavy squalls & fog owing to which we miss the entrance and
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are carried by the current off Cape Cheerful near to the fishing station and retreat being impossible are obliged to put to sea, a most severe gale raging.  This continues all night and surpasses anything ever experienced by anyone on board.  During the night some of the squalls were excessively violent almost equal to a hurricane.

[[line]] Wednesday Sept 29/80 [[line]]

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Time   | Bar.  | Ther.| Dry b. | Web b.| Water. | Wind.
4 A.M. | 28.90 | 43   | 45     | 44.5  | 43     | N
8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]]   | 29.15 | 42.5 | 44.5   | 44.0  | 42.5   | NW
12 M   |   .30 | 43.5 | 45.5   | 45.5  | 44.7   | " [[ditto for: NW]]
6 P.M. |   .32 | 42.5 | 44.5   | 44.5  | 44.7   | " [[ditto for: NW]]
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The wind continued to rage with great fury and the sea was extremely heavy.  The day owing to the shifting of the wind round to the westward was partly clear with flying scud.  Early in the morning saw Bogosloff under our lee.  Though the vessel behaves nobly it is evident we cannot ride out 24 hours longer without going on a lee shore and we therefore determine to run for Chernoffsky Harbor, failing

Transcription Notes:
Geographic names checked: Akutan; Captains Bay; Cape Cheerful; Chernoffsky Harbor. 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