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[[line]] Sunday Aug 4 / 95 [[line]]
Day fair with westerly wind. Arrive in Chignik Bay about 6 A.M. and enter the lagoon and run up to the cannery which is on the SW shore. 2 fms least water on the bar and 22 ft at high water within the channel is moderately wide with 3-5 fms water sandy bottom up to the cannery, beyond which it shoals.
Capt. Muller & Supt. Smith of the canneries come aboard. We go ashore, inspect the canneries, dine with Mr. Wm. D. Smith, and about 1:30 go on a small stern wheeler up to the head of the bay and about a mile up the river to the coal mine.  The river is not very deep and runs between perpendicular low bluffs of Tertiary rock to