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Brook to Wires Reading Vert. Meters Bearing
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Foot of bank B 27. 1.40 27.3 N 8 W
Edge of beach B 43. 0.0 43.3 S 63 E
" " " [[dittos for: Edge of beach]] B 94. 0.0 94.3 S 54 E
" " " [[dittos for: Edge of beach]] B 110.0 0.0 110.3 S 43 E
Rocky Point B 102.5 0.0 102.8 S 35 E
Extr. end of Is. B 109.0 0.0 109.3 S 29 E
Thursday Mar. 14, 1872
Weather Barom Thermometer Wind
Stormy 29.476 36 40 36 SE squally
Cloudy, rainy & squally. Wind SE late in P.M. nearly S. with more moderate weather. Bar. 10. P.M. 29.620 According to Captain Chapman, in 1868 a whaling vessel store in the ice off Cape St. Thaddeus, drifted ashore in Seniavine Strait, shortly after the ice passed out of the latter Also in 1870-71 the water between Plover Bay and St. Lawrence Id burst its bands of ice late in May and by the middle of June a vessel might have been managed there if had been
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able to force her way through the drifting ice to the southward. The ice on the west side of St. Lawrence is open before that to the east and SE of it.
Friday Mar. 15, 1872
Weather Barom. Thermometer Wind
Cloudy 29.800 38 48 36 S fresh.
Passing clouds with light short snowflurries occasionally.
Busy with telemetric observations on south Amaknak Id. all day. P.M. cloudy, wind SSE. Barometer 8 P.M. 29.810.
Pt. On S Amaknak to Wires Reading Vert. Meters Bearing
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Beach B 18.0 0.0 18.3 N 57½ W
" [[ditto for: Beach]] B 54.5 0.0 54.8 N 59½ W
" [[ditto for: Beach]] B 81.0 0.0 81.3 N 53½ W
" [[ditto for: Beach]] B 128.0 0.0 128.3 N 53½ W
" [[ditto for: Beach]] B 172.5 0.0 172.8 N 46½ W
" [[ditto for: Beach]] B 204.0 0.0 204.3 N 35½ W
Rocky point B 242.5 0.0 242.8 N 20 W
Beach B 277.0 0.0 277.3 N 16 W
Beyond last to ○ '
Last B 155. 0.0 155.3 S 50¼ W