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for St. Michaels, Luniefsky, & Mrs. Bath. We have beaten him by five days & a half. Go aboard the Eustace & then ashore. Dine with Hennig. The France Palmer, which [cleared?] on the 28th of April arrives in the afternoon about 3 oclock. Frederickson is passenger and perhaps Ennis. 
Come aboard to supper. Look over the vertical circle and get the distance for telemeter for the small theodolite. Between the upper & lower wires at a distance of two meters, with .2286 correction four inches are subtended, 2 in between each pair of wires. = 2 into a meter between both wires and one in per meter between the upper or lower wires. The telemeter is seven feet long which will allow of 84 meters being measured with it.

Thursday May 22
[Min Ther.?] 31. Day cloudy with strong NW by W & W wind & snow squalls. Overhaul instruments. and collection room. Morning work over notes & [?]