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and one into Cook's Inlet
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Sunday Feb. 25 about 9 A.M a good illustration of the action of the tidal currents in Iliuliuk Harbor was afforded. The wind had been northerly for some days, and a heavy snow storm prevailing at the same time the result was that a large amount of slush ice in cakes had accumulated at the head of Captain's Harbor. The wind changed to a light southerly air and the tide being nearly high, about nine A.M. with the tide an immense quantity of this ice in rounded cakes & loose slush came into Iliuliuk Harbor through Amaknak Straits at the rate of 4 knots an hour filling the en
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Names checked: Cook's Inlet; Iliuliuk Harbor; Captain's Harbor; Amaknak Straits