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Obs continued from Top Breakfast Isds

h2-m40-00 [[symbol: Sun]] to Remarkable Peak Kin-gaite side = 102°-13'
    42-05 70°-45' (3)
    43-55 [[symbol: Sun]] to same R. Peak  101°-12'
    45-07 71°-12'
Azimuth Compass bearing said Peak  58°  Reversed = 238
By Sex = Remarkable Peak to President's Seat (Sex)  52°-45'
Bluff by 2d Encampment (Sharko) to President's Seat  78°-08'
Isd ([[symbol: Sun]] Marked) out in Bay to Remarkable Peak (Sex)  87°-39'

Start from Breakfast Island h3-m45 (Chro) [[image: drawing of hand with index finger pointing to text]] [[underlined]] X7[[?]] = 25 [[/underlined]] feet (oars)
[[note]] Hall N.Y. April 8th/64 X [[symbol: Integral]] [[underlined]] s7 = 25 [[/underlined]] feet (oars) (that is the speed of Boat was 25 feet in 7 seconds the propelling power [[underlined]] oars [[/underlined]])  By this it appears my log line was then only 25 feet length [[/note]]

I now copy pencil memorandum of Meridn Obs. for Lat. taken near hV. by Chro
Merid. Obs  40°-25'(Chro near hV)
Sea horizon 3/4 mile off (limited by an Island) 3 1/2 feet above sea

I now copy from the piece of Board of parallelogram figure 2 3/4 inches x 3 3/4 inches 1/4 in. thick picked up South Sea near where I took Obs for Meridn on which I made memoranda for want of paper at the time.

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1) (1st side
Ter. 1st Bay hV-m35
hV-m35 Breeze s5
V-40 Arrive to mouth Bay with commencement B. s4
Bay 3 miles deep
From termination of other Bay to the coast even Frobisher Bay now grows much wider & limitless ahead
Bay as seen 4 miles deep tho' at the N. part narrow

2) (Opposite side)
To 1/4 mile extent far up flanked by by steep mountains
VII-00 - s6 } Deep, black water no shoals or Islands in it
VII-06 - s7 }
VII-20 - s6 }
VII-35 - s6 }
[[note]] So many seconds every 25 feet progress H [[/note]]
VII-50 Reach opposite side & stop.

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1861 Aug 16th Fri.

On the highest point (on Cape) N. side (by Compass) of entrance to Bay
P.M. Obs.
Index error -1'-30"
hVIII-m40-s17 | 53°-00'
       41-32  | 52-45