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sea running very high and the wind very fresh we are obliged to run on toward Bogosloff. Get a sight on Vsevidoff volcano with an estimated distance of twenty three miles, which if correct would make it 8800 ft high toward night the wind moderates but the swell continues & results in a terrible rolling & slatting which lasts all night.

Friday Aug 29
Day half clear with light winds from N & NW and a heavy northerly ground swell. Sight Bogosloff volcano early in the A.M. and come up within ten miles of it about noon. Bearing North by East true and on latitude 53°.49'.52".
The island is a sharp hog-back ridge with the edge broken into pinnacles of the greatest asperity disposed in three principal groups. There seems to be little or no shore to it except the high borders of the bluff except here & there where the talus comes down to the water. 
When the bearings A were taken

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A{Ship Rock   NNW 1/4 N}      1.43.00
 {W edge Bogs  "  1/2 N} all  1.44'.00"
 {E          N by W  }        1.45.00
  E reef       N              1.43.00

                                                         Let go
N edy Unalarlka NE [[circled]] by E 1/2 E [[/circled]]   .08.45"
E  "  [[inmak?]] SE 1/2 S                        50 fm   .10.10
N. Head Makushin B. East                                 .11.18 
          n                                              .12.20


[[image: four wavy line drawings]] 
[[ line to first drawing]] 4.58.10
[[left of first drawing on sweeping line]] n
                         [[by 2nd drawing]]          B. 3.19.50
                                                        3.24.80
[[left of 3rd drawing]] n [[under third drawing]] n by E 10 miles 
                                                              
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[[under fourth drawing]] n 5 miles