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on the authority of Capt. May, 45 miles from Semenoffsky Id. Amukhta Pass is 36 miles wide on Lebenkoff's chart, but A. says it is ten miles wider. The natives have reported to him the existence of a good (?) harbor on Semisopochnoi Island. Hennig however says they report a poor harbor there, and also that the passage to it is rocky with dangerous tiderips. Archimandritoff has heard rumors of a reef extending from the NE and of Umnak to Bogoslov volcano, on ^[[which]] the sea breaks in rough weather, but he has no definite information. Hennig says there is no such reef except a short one extending a few miles northward from Umnak, he has passed close to both shores in good weather and could find no bottom with two codlines (50 - 60 fms).
Sunday Feb. 25, 1872
Weather Barom. Thermometer Winds
Half cloudy 29.330 16 26 13.5 Light S
About 9 A.M. the tide being nearly high and rapidly rising, with a very light S wind (also freshening)
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a stream of ice cakes from Captain's (formed during the cold Northerly snow storms prevalent of late) poured in to Iliuliuk Harbor through the strait of Amaknak, at the rate of four knots an hour completely filling the harbor, within an hour, though it had been perfectly free from ice, before. The low temperature of the air caused the cakes to freeze together (thus preventing their exit with the falling tide) and by night a very thick and strong coat of ice covered the whole of Iliuliuk Harbor. As an illustration of the tidal currents here, it may be mentioned that none of the ice was able to pass out through the mouth entrance, where the water simply appeared to "back up," as there was no concavity in the line of floating ice at that mouth such as must have resulted, had there been any tidal influx there. The only clear space in the whole harbor was at the mouth of the

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Edited to change 'Hiuliuk' to Iliuliuk' and other minor corrections