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- Currents on up voyage -
- September - 1871 -

Leaving the Cala. coast in Lon 125.38 Lat. 88.50, Sept. 1st 1871, for two days the records show light southerly ^ [[insertion]] & easterly [[/insertion]] currents of about .3 of a knot per hour with a temperature of 60° + 61° Fahr. Winds light. At 4h Sept 3, nautical time the temperature which for a few hours had fallen to 58° abruptly rose to 62° and the observations showed a change of direction of the current toward the west. The temperature increased to 63° on the 3rd at 20 [[underlined]] h [[/underlined]] and continued for about 24 hours when it fell to 62° again and the observations exhibited a slight northerly & westerly drift of about .2 knots per hour. On the 4th at 24h the temperature rose again reaching 65°

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Place name: Cala. coast