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Weigh anchor early in the morning, and stand out with a fair wind, but just before reaching the narrows take a back flow and are obliged to wear[[guess]] and anchor again. About noon wind comes out of the N.W. strong, and we stand out to sea on our way to Kyska Island. The bearings outside the Harbor do not agree with the easterly variation
given on the charts, but this variations appears to be more correct in the vicinity of Semichi Id. which we pass in the P.M. Weather half clear.
[[solid line]] Saturday, June 28th 1843. [[solid line]]
Time Bar. Air Water Wind
4 30.23 41° 42° W.S.W
8 30.28 42 43 " [[ditto for: W.S.W.]]
12 30.26 49 42 N.W. Lt
4 30.29 46 44 Calm
8 30.30 45 43 S.E.
12 30.34 42 42 " [[ditto for: S.E.]]
Weather thick and foggy. Wind light,  A.M. Calm. About 4 P.M. When in Lat. 52° 20' N. and Long. E. of Greenwich 177° 17' fourteen miles off the N.W. end of Kyska Id. take a deep sea sounding as follows: Attaching a Casella Thermometer to the line
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17 fms above the lead - of which the indices read 64°.5 and 63°.5 respectively when passed over:
Let go at 3h 55m. 00 sec.
1st 100 fms run out 55 48
2d 100 " " [[dittos for: fms run out]] 56 50
3d 100 " " [[dittos for: fms run out]] 58 19
4th 100 " " [[dittos for: fms run out]] 4 00 00
5th 100 " " [[dittos for: fms run out]] 02 09
6th 100 " " [[dittos for: fms run out]] 04 12
7th 100 " " [[dittos for: fms run out]] 06 22
8th 100 " " [[dittos for: fms run out]] 09 37
9th 100 " " [[dittos for: fms run out]] (bottom about here) 12 24
85 " " [[dittos for: fms run out]] 15 11
On hauling in the line the Stellwagen cup was found to be nearly full of fine chalky mud containing Globigerina and other minute foranninifera, corresponding to those found in the sea bed of the No
Atlantic. The indices of the thermometer had evidently been disturbed and shaken out of place by the inevitable jerks, which occur when hauling in by the jumping of the line of the concave surface of the
drum of the winch. This usually occurs when the utmost care is used and the line hauled in by hand, so that I have but little confidence in any readings taken

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