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10 to Unalashka, yet on record. Weather cloudy with fresh NE breeze ______Wednesday May 21, 73______ Cloudy, very strong, NNW wind with snow squalls. Examine instruments and measure a staff for the small Casella theodolite to use as a telemeter. Between the upper & lower wires at a distance of two meters, with a correction of 0.2286 m four inches are subtended and between each pair of wires two inches. The staff is seven feet long which will admit of measuring 84 meters with it Put out minimum and deepwater thermometer and carry on our observations henceforward at the hours of 6 A.M. 12 noon & 6 P.M. each day. Time Bar. Air. Surf. water. Deep do. Wind 6. A.M. - 33° 39° 40° N 12. M. 30.16 34 - - N 6 P.M. 30.14 33 38 - NNW ______Thursday May 22______ Cloudy with snow squalls and strong NW by W & W wind. Occupied in examining instruments and cler [[end page]] [[start page]] 11 ical work. Min. Ther. 31 Time. Bar. Air. Sur. water. Deep do. Wind 6. A.M.30.11 32° 38° 40° NW 12. M. 30.12 49 - - W 6. P.M.30.22 40 38 - NW ______Friday May 23, 73______ Morning cloudy with fresh wind and snow squalls. Min. Ther. 32°.5. Get meteorological record from Jan 1, 1873 to date kept by the Rev. Innocentius Shayesh Nikoff, priest of Unalashka, with the thermometer which I left with him last year. 6 A.M. 30.32 34° 39° 40° NW 12 M. 30.40 42 - - O 6 P.M. 30.45 38 38 - S ______Saturday May 24______ Wind light. Weather thick cloudy & rainy. Min. Ther. 34. Work all day over clerical work and repairing signals. 6 A.M. 30.42 34° 39° 40° SW 12 M. 30.33 42 - - S 6 P.M. 30.31 40 38 - S ______Sunday May 25______ Morning, sky partly clear. Wind fresh. Min. Therm. 34°.
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Barometric entry for 6 A.M. Saturday May 24 could be 30.41, but the tail of the "2" is heavy and looks like a journal correction.
