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[[across double page]] Friday July 20/60 [[/across double page]] School-Master receives } $ Danish per annum } = 125. 3 other teachers each 100. 3 " " " [[dittos for: other teachers each]] 25. 3 " " " [[dittos for: other teachers each]] 10. 2 " " " [[dittos for: other teachers each]] 6. [[entry w/ 2 has a small "x" next to it and a dotted line leading to a small X next it - tying the two entries together]] { One of the 2 gets $6 & teaches his } { 2 children ^[[insertion]](the only Children of his district)[[/insertion]] to read & write! } {4 women who teach the children {A.B.C. per year $1. 3 small schooners 5 " [[ditto for: small]] Boats 11 Whale " [[ditto for: Boats]] 24 stoves (only one in a house) in Receive 100 BBls. stove coal } 5 fathoms wood } [[ wavy horizontal line]] Danish call it [[strikethrough]]Cod [[/strikethrough]] "Stock-Fish" - Americans call [[insertion]] [same "Cod-fish" [[/insertion]]- Danes - when salt [[strikethrough]] is in [[/strikethrough]] "Clip-Fish" [[end page]] [[start page]] [[vertical pencil line on left]] Product of 1 year "Stock fish" 21000 lbs - Several years ago ^[[insertion]] obtained of Esq.[[/insertion]] in 2 years 100 thousand lbs (50 tons) of Rein-deer horns - Get 2 skillings (pr lb.) Sent some horns ^ [[insertion] 4500 lb [[/insertion]] to Copenhagen but it would not pay freight The Governor told me to-day that [[strikethrough]] whoever [[/strikethrough]] whenever the Government ships were obliged to take horns to Copenhagen the Greenland Stone for ballast they could sell ^[[insertion]] it [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] them for [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] to [[/insertion]] no purpose there, because (say they, who wish to purchase good stone) your Greenland Stone is rotten"! [[/vertical line drawn in pencil on left]] I am inclined to think there is great fault in said Stone on this account. I have been on to the mountains - named Lene & Sterne - & I do find that ^[[insertion]] the stones [[/insertion]] exposure to the atmosphere is followed by crumbling. On "Mount Cunningham" & stone near it I saw satisfactory proof that this is so. ^[[insertion]] Small [[/insertion]] mountains of stone that have crumbled off [[strikethrough]] the Main [[/strikethrough]] are to be seen lying at the bases of the main or principal ones. The Winters' [[strikethrough]] Work [[/strikethrough]] are doing their levelling work - & doing it rapidly.
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[[start page]] & [[end page]] not needed at either end of transcription - only between the two pages of a double image. Esquimaux currency at time is 'skillings'