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& overturning of every man of us besides libraries Crockery ware & other things in general! Will obviate the [[strikethrough]] necessity [[/strikethrough]] of any listening.
Smith pleasantly remarks that [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] we may take it ^for granted that the Fog-game has been played out! We shall see.

Sunday , Aug, 5th 1860
The gale has been of long continuance. It did not lessen its vehemence till about XII (Meridian)
Capt Buddington wisely directed the vessel to take a  N by E course
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thus getting fully clear of all land. By observations made by myself with 2 sextants - one a pocket sextant by "Dolland" - of London - I determined the Latitiude we were in at Noon to be 63°-12'-15N. By Chronometer I found the [[strikethrough]] latitude [[/strikethrough]] ^[[insertion]] longitude to be:
62°-23'-05W [[strikethrough]] see correction on sextants lip Hall [[/strikethrough]] 
on the following bases   
                 h  m  s      Altitude about V P.M.
Greenwich time} IX-13-55) =     21°-46' 
by Ship Chro. } IX-14-46) =     21°-40'
nometer)        IX-15-19) =     21°-38'   
(Fast 01m-01s) '

About O'Clock this P.M.  we tethered ship - Are now making for "Oo-Kan-leer" Since three o'clock, weather fine - Air & Water 'clear as a bell' But the sea is very rough from the 'free-blow' that has prevailed above it for the last 20 hours. Capt. B. remarked as he came out of Birth this morning on surveying the [[strikethrough]] huge piles of [[/strikethrough]] Books that had been vehemently & promis-

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