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[[inserted sheet covering page 63]] No 3) Traverse Table from Boat Landing 1st time to Shartu wik-too [[eight column table]] [[column headings]] |Comp C.|Minutes|Seconds|67 feet per|feet per sec.|total feet|Dist. Mile|[[nil]]| |166°|10|600|10s|6.7|4,020|.6605|[[nil]]| |240°|17|1020|s9|7.444|7.854|1.2905|[[encircled 1.248 with a line to 1.2905 [[triple line across table, with an "A" superimposed over the lines between 5th & 6th column, see footnote below]] [[new headings]] |Compass C.|True C.|Dist.|N.|S.|E.|W.|[[nil]]| [[Single line across table]] |166|S-48°-E|.6605|[[nil]]|.4420|4908|[[nil]]|[[nil]] |240°|N58E|1,2905|.6836|[[nil]]|1.0940|[[nil]]| |[[nil]]|[[nil]]____|[[nil]]|[[nil]]|____|[[nil]]|[[nil]] |[[nil]]|[[nil]]|1.4510|.4420|[[nil]]|1.584=|Dif. Dist|[[nil]]| [[nil]]|[[nil]]|[[nil]]|____|[[nil]]|[[nil]]|[[nil]]|[[nil]] |Va N 62°W.|[[nil]]|[[nil]]|.2416=|Dif. Lat|[[nil]][[nil]][[nil]]| [[single line across table]] [[/eight column table]] Lat. place 1st landing base Mt. - - - 62°-32'-53" 4845.767 Dif Lat - - - - - - - - 15 __________ Lat. of Shar-tuc-wik-tunge - on Is} = 62 -33 -08 4846.267 the place where I made last enc. before} ________ arrival back to ship on voyage up Bay } .500 of Frobisher last fall_________________} Long. place 1st landing base Mt = 65°-01'-02" Dif. Long. - - - - - - 3'-17" ___________ Long. of Shar-tu wik-too] = 64°-57'-45" As Miner this ?moment ?pronounces it] [[wavy line across page]] [[footnote encircled]] [[encircled A]] above opposite 7,854 feet ?indicates ?are ?error It should be 7,593 feet = [1.248 mile] The ?error however is only an excess of 261 feet[[/footnote encircled]]
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Page 61 looks like an insert covering page 63. Page 62 may be the back of this sheet?
Apparently there is some confusion over the name of the object they are surveying [?as Miner this moment pronounces it.?]