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Wednesday May 20
Called at 4 A.M. to look at the Bay we suppose to be Dry Bay of authors. The great glacier comes down, covered with earth to near the beach and not extending quite to the sea. A Terminal moraine covered with trees and forming a small bluff 50 ft high rises directly from behind the beach and is broken by several gullies from which water issues. Midway up the glacier the beach is formed of boulders & there is only grass on the moraine. Then comes a bunch of hills rocky the rest green
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with trees on the lower slopes These gradually slope off to the northward with small creeks here & there to the low islands of La Perouse but no large streams appear to come in.
Take several soundings - see opp. and many notes & bearings
After breakfast observations for time, with repeated bearings & notes till noon obs for
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May 20. 6 A.M.
C. Fairweather E 3/4 S
[[strikethrough]] [[Course?]] [[/strikethrough]] Spin NE 1/2 E
Course N edge glacier NE 1/2 N
Low Pt N
Elias Mt W - N
Mt Fairweather E by N 1/2 N
Crillon E
about 35 fms [[sound?]]
6.30 A.M.
Fairweather Mt E 1/2 N
" Cape ESE
W edge glacier NE
Sound in 35 fms [[?]]
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7.30 A.M.
Mt Fairweather E 1/2 N
Cape " ESE
W side glacier NE 1/2 E
34 fm sd
June
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Mt Fairweather ENE 1/2 E
" Crillon E
W edge glacier NE shore 3 miles
Mt St Elias W by N 1/4 N
Eastern creek Dry Bay N 1/4 W
Top of middle mountain NE by N 1/6 N
Course NW by N 1/6 N.
Indian [[?beacon]] NW 1/2 W 6 miles?
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Elias W by N
High land toward Bering Bay W by N 1/4 N
Outer edge low land W 1/2 N
ID. 11. AM
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