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[[Pages 190 - 206 appear to be Hall's log showing positions, weather and events occuring on the voyage back to the United States. Many are nearly impossible to read let alone transcribe, especially this page 190 nearly undecipherable. The top 1/4 of the page is in pencil and has been crossed out with three large X's and appear to be an exercise in Chonometer comparisons in three columns.]] + [[for sunday]] Octci 27th 1861 Comp Chron hVII-m38-s00 11°-24'-30" R's VII-50-00 VII- 39- 55 11 -03 -00 GH's VII-32-03 VII- 42- 00 10 -42 -30 Ship [[?two lines of numbers unreadable]] [[wavy black ink line across entire page]] Monday Aug. 18th 1862 Obs &c Continued & Concluded from page [[encircled 2]] x Exceeding this - Long of place where I took Obs. (by "Lunar") 53°-58'-15" Dip Long [[?Mountain]]AM of to Noon ======[[underlined]]10-23[[/underlined]] Long at Meridian place of [[?as ?fung]] = [[equals the difference in the previous two hour-minute-second numbers:]] 53°-47-52 Latitude Dif. Long from Noon Obs to Rd Obs=========13-38 _______ 53-34-14 Long as deduced from "Lunar"] at time of taking PM Obs. ]53°34-14 as below ] ("Lunar") hVI-m59-s07 - 35°-17'-0" VII-00-00 8-10 VII-00-49 2-30 _________ Mer=VI-59-59 35°- 9'-10" GH Chro Fast 6-10 15-51? ________ _________ VI-53-43 35- 25-09 [3-19-00 1-19{Long.P.M. ________ _________{Obs. 53°-4'-45 3-34-43 35-23-50 {by Chro. Long. W 3-33 53°-40'-45" 35-20-15 [[Circumpunct [[?truft]] 35-20.2 Lat. 51-02.4 ,20150 [[?Place D's 76-58.4 ,01132 [[?]] 2)163-21.0 81-40.5 9.16073 35-20.2 _______ 46-20.3 9.85940 _______ 2)19.23295 Ax'/PM h3-m15-s24 9.61647 [[?eq]] +3- 36 _________ 3-19-00 [[?meantime ship][[dotted line leading back up to bracketed "3-19-00"]] [[wavy black line across the page]] Difference [[?lat.]] myu "Lunar" induced to place of Ship (time of P.M. Obs.) & Long by Chro. at] =06'-31" h3-m19-s00 P.M. [[this time is linked to a time near top of ink notes: "53°-34'-14"]] [[slanted note in right margin between two parallel lines]] This copied into My Log Book - Silk paper [[?backed]] [[/slanted note]] [[column of figures in left margin]] Meridian Observation Aug 18/62 Observed AM [[circumpunct]] 51°-36-30 [[circumpunct]] S.D. 15-51 Px 7 _________ 51-52-28 [[?Rep]] - - - - - - - - - - 45 ________ 51-51-43 Dip - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3-25 ________ [[circumpunct]] [[?tme?Alt. 51-48-18 90-00-00 ________ [[?2 ?site ?Dif.]] 38-11-42 [[?]] 13-04-19 ________ Lat [[?]] 51-16-01 [[circled note linked to figure above]] N. Lat.Noon Obs[[/circled note]] [[line across margin note area]] Lat Noon Obs. 51°-16 Dif. Lat 10 Lat. Place AM Obs 51 -26 Course & distance from place AM obs to place Meridinal Obs. =S.33° E (True) - 12 miles[[another wavy black line across the page]] Lat. Noon 51°-16'-00" Dif. Lat. 13-38 Lat. Place 51-02-22 PM Obs Course x distance from Place Noon Obs. to place P.M. obs.=S.33°E.(true) -16 1/4 Miles [[/column of figures]] [[end of page]]
Transcription Notes:
[[Pages 190 - 206 appear to be Hall's log showing positions, weather and events occuring on the voyage back to the United States. Many are nearly impossible to read let alone transcribe, especially this page 190 nearly undecipherable.]] I have taken some liberty with the underlining and strikethrough rules to make the transcription more readable. Numbers in the calculations have been aligned on my end so that the mathematics can be more closely followed.