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[[boxed in blue ink in upper left corner]] 1861 Sept 19 Thur [[/boxed]] [[encircled in blue]] 2 [[/encircled in blue]] On top tongue (?) Cape Be 21st 7th [[strikethrough]] [[encircled in blue]] 2 [[/encircled in blue]] [[/strikethrough]] Enc 5 Opera Glass Peak Bearg 6[[degree symbol]] 21st Enc exact spot 1 mile off 135[[degree symbol]] [[strikethrough]] 7 [[/strikethrough]] 7th Enc [[in red]] ^[[ strikethrough]] Wa[[?]] Tongue Cape]] [[/in red]] " " [[dittos for: exact spot]] 1/2 " " [[dittos for: Mile off]] 300 [[strikethrough]] Grimmel Mt [[/strikethrough]] [[left margin in red]] [[encircled]] 8 [[/encircled]] By what I thoughts to call Grimmell Tulst[[guess]] [[/left margin in red]] [[image: sketch of a shoreline that looks like a man with outstretched arm, land to right, water to left with annotations]] [[first promontory]] O.G.P. [[next small prom.]] Killed Deer [[next small prom.]] B [[next small prom.]] A [[then a long bent cove that looks like a man's arm, deepest point (hand)]] C [[at elbow bend]] D [[next prom.]] 7 Enc X Place of 21 Enc. [[then a small bay]] Bay [[below the bay]] [[encircled]] H [[/encircled]] [[then the coastline continues on down and off to the left. Near the left margin there are four small islands]] E F G [[the smallest is not labeled.]] [[Starting at the small inlet labeled Bay there is what appears to be a key to the diagram as follows:]] [[encircled]] A [[/encircled]] 342 by Az Cam [[encircled]] B [[/encircled]] 356 " " " [[dittos for: by Az Cam]] [[encircled]] C [[/encircled]] 280 " " " [[dittos for: by Az Cam]] [[encircled]] D [[/encircled]] 270 [[encircled]] E [[/encircled]] 40 [[encircled]] F [[/encircled]] RT 60[[degree symbol]] F LT 110[[degree symbol]] G RT 124[[degree symbol]] G LT 140 [[red ink]] H = = 153[[degree symbol]] See next p [[encircled]] 3 [[encircled]] [[/red ink]]
Transcription Notes:
Notes on this page correspond with pages 224-225 of Hall's book "Arctic Researches, And Life Among The Esquimaux: Being A Narrative Of An Expedition In Search Of Sir John Franklin In The Years 1860, 1861 and 1862."
"..., arriving about dark at the place of our twenty-first encampment, on the south side of Tongue Cape ? the same cape where we had our seventh."