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1861 Sep 6 Fri
16 Enc. 29 D out
A

Island Ground [[symbol: Sun]] 
[[symbol: Sun]] Marked Point of Island side the passage we enter to go to 16th (13th) Enc. to Left Eastward tangent of the group } = 45°-41'

[[symbol: Sun]] Mark to (Wd)
Snow mark in Mt    69°
snow Mark to Gateway = 116°-7
[[symbol: Sun]] Mark by passage to G.W.  185°-7'

Place of 14th Enc. 1 mile off from said snow mark  90°N
Gate Way carried S & W to little Peak } = 2°-30'

Point (A) Island Group carried N to the long low Island 1 1/2 or miles off  19°-38'

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1861 Sept 6 Fri
16th Enc. 29 Day out

R. Tangent said Long Island (1 1/2 or 2 miles off stretching away toward 13th Enc.) to L.T.  105°-00'

At Chro hXI-m05 (VI-05 PM) we started from Preservation Island.  The tide was all of 8 feet higher when we came out from than when we put in to said Island.  There on that Island we remained Six hours.  How it was that the tide should be so much higher than when we went in & is still rushing past the island with such velocity that we made no headway after putting out for over 15 minutes I cannot at present account for it.
I cannot stop to philosophise.  I am too sick to do what I am doing.
When the tide turned (that is from ebb to flood) we could see it coming in afar off.  Its roar was like the sea raging in storm.  It came with great volume & velocity.  A person mid-way between some of the islands about here, walking