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establish a satisfactory coefficient of
correction.

The beer bids fare to seaward, the starch
of the willow has a fine effect upon the
fermentation and its bitter is to my palate
nearly equal to hops

The dog Euphrosine [bettereth?]
after three days of fast & insensibility
through fits. Why these fits & her spasms
resemble Tetanus! Poor Euphrosine!
The bear meat - raw - used her up.

[margin] Wednes. Oct. 11

The present Therm: [unclear] [unclear] is 1.5
lower than our mercurial.

Our temperatures alone without the
aid of the ice growth show how much the
present season is in advance of the follow of
last year - The Ice foot however is full
of interest - a true and easily read [unclear]
of the advance of winter.

The long sweep of rectilinear
face from [Fur?] Trap Point to Silvia Head
reads for us not only the season but the
tides . Its surface already glazed and
iced by repeated overflows is as level
as a floor - the [heavily?] strewn rocks
are hid by the upheaval of a fresh ice
surface - and below all - the low tides
expose the bevilling or angular recession
of the bottom between this upper & lower
[sketch] New Surface 1.
Old Sea Foot 2.
Talus 3.
face the [alteration?] of the
tides has kept up a perpetual
movement with the rubbish
of the land ices. On this escarp we
here impressed in broad apparent re=
lief - 3 zones (1.2.3.) - - The 1st exhibiting
the range of the springs - a max. min. & mean.