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From this time ^ [[insertion]] till the 18th [[/insertion]] the temperature [[strikethrough]] averaged 49°.5 rising [[/strikethrough]] rose to 52 and falling to 48 [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] on two occasions but maintaining an average of 49°.5. A strong current ^ [[insertion]] from .5 to nearly a k [[/insertion]] was perceptible which proved to run on the 15th in a SWesterly direction, on 16th nearly east on the 17th southerly & easterly while on the 18th we could obtain no observations. It appears from the directions of the current and from the latitude ([[underlined]] 5Q [[/underlined]]) and other general considerations as if this period was passed in crossing the elbow of a ^ [[insertion]] southerly [[/insertion]] curve of the great N Pacific current. On the 19th with the same temperature of 49°, a northerly and westerly drift of nearly a knot an hour was experienced [[strikethrough]] being our first indication of the great Alaska cur-[[/strikethrough]]