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-cuously piled up around his door that he thought the signification of this event. to be that he should quit whaling business & turn his attention to literary pursuits - he therefore proposed to commence by opening a Grammar School! During yesterday [[strikthrough]] will [[/strikethrough]] while sailing toward & from the [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] the land we kept within about  [[underlined in red]] 10 miles of *North Freeland [[/underlined in red]] Relation to the fogs Capt. B. says he[[strikethrough]] never [[/strikethrough]] never experienced so much trouble in all his 8 years here. 
This delay of making the harbor ^[[insertion]] intended [[/insertion]] at an earlier day is very much against our progress this year. Let us believe that all is for the best for such is the fact.
   [[written in circle in bottom right corner]] *This North freeland an island called "Kitch-ik-tring" [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]]] by Esquimaux Nyack N.Y. July 24/63 Fall
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Monday Aug 6th 1860
Alt{ Thermometer Air 40 Sea 40
Alt{ Barometer  29.350 (AM - Wind S.W.)
 (Lat at Noon 63°-23'-15. N  (Fair weather)
On going on deck this morning found 'Nature again on a Spree'
"Refraction" - so called - is now going on. I have been observing its Working for two hours. I will simply record some of [[strikethrough]] this [[/strikethrough]] ^[[insertion]] the [[/insertion]] the phenomena connected with this subject. When I 1st observed the unnatural appearance of the bergs, sea & islands Westward + S.W., the sun was 10 degrees high & shining brightly. Barometer stood at 29.35 [[insertion]] inches [[/insertion]] Ther. 41°,  wind blowing moderately from the [[strikethrough in red]] S. [[/strikethrough in red]] W. On looking S.W. I saw the tip of a distant berg; all at once a [[underlined]] white [[/underlined]] spot - not larger than a pin head - appeared in the clouds hanging directly over the berg. [[underlined]] In three seconds [[/underlined]] it enlarged to the size & appearance of one of the Egyptian pyramids, though ^[[insertion]] this was [[/insertion]]inverted. At every

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North Freeland is between Greenland and Iceland. [[For information: [[end page]] and [[start page]] only needed between the two pages of a double image, not at either end of transcription.]]