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[[strikethrough of entire page with large x]][[top left corner boxed in]]
[[underline]]1st set[[/underline]]
Ang 8th 1862 G.H [[Hall's vessel: George Henry]] on shore
[[encircled "17", directly under shore and above '17' in the subsequent line]]17[[/encircled]]
[[time (hours, minutes, seconds) and bearing (degrees, minutes) readings]]
^[[1st Set]
VIII-38-33  59°-17
     40-45  58°-50                                 
     42-24  58°-30[[/top left corner boxed in]]

[[starting at top right corner]]
Result ?Tsu Alt [[circumpunct sun symbol]]29-40-27
Lat worked @ 62°-53'
?Poln ?dist. 73°-56-02
E [[strikethrough]]What[[/strikethrough time n5-s22,00
Ap. "[[for time]] [[underlined]]3.41-38[[/underlined]] h3-m47-00 M. To Ship
[[/starting at top right corner]]
[[what follows appears to be a long complicated calculation involving time and longitude, treated as if in two columns not separated by a vertical line. Tiny scribles and skethy annotations have not been transcribed.]]
[[left column]]
?Men VIII-40-34  58°-52-20
        3-47-00
?Ohio F%4-53-34
^[[2 Set]]
     VIII-43-42  58°-11-30
          45-04  57°-56
          46-46  57°-36
?Men VIII 45-12 =57°-54 ?30"
        3 51-34  
Ohio F %4 53-38
[[vertical note in left margin]]
Bud. Mt ?Bris 209°
Grinnekk Mt. ?Bems 315°
[[/vertical note in left margin]]
[[Notes added, squeezed in, to calculation later?]] To Lt Tang. on W. side Mt Ob of ?S ?S ?ex
Circumpunct to. Lt [[ditto marks for this down the column between the following times and bearings]]
     VIII-49-00 " " " 110°-50'
          50-08 " " " 111 -08
          51-00 " " " 111 -18
^[[3d Set]]
          52-34  56°-17
          54-17  56 -00
          55-18  55-46-30"

57-47 Circumpunct To Lt Peak Mt Warwick 104-42
59-00    "         "  "   "   "  " 104-56
59-52    "         "  "   "   "  : 105-10
         ?  158  R  338
IX-01-20  54° 31'
   02-15  54 -19-19
    3-33  54  02
[[/left column]]
[[right column]]
Circummpunct ?Tim Alt 29-21-30
Lat.                  62-53-08
?Robin ?Sipt          73-56-05    
Eq ?Tim 5-22
?Ap  " [[underlined]]3-46-12 [[/underlinned]]
                     3-51-34=M.T.Ship
[[dropped down several lines are the following]
?Miles ?Sp 0
?on      32'
?Off     32'
[[/dropped down several lines are the 
following]]
[[in parenthesis in lower right margin]]
(?Cohip Ohio. see over 2 leaves)
[[/in parenthesis in lower right margin]]

Transcription Notes:
Bud. may be Budington Mt. "M. T. Ship" may mean "miles to ship." Calculations are a complete mystery to me. Two leaves over (page 6) Hall states he may have made errors in calculations. Aug 8th 1862 corresponds to page 561 in Hall's book.