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our extractive makes a [smoky] wick which
needs constant watching [alone can obviate.]
Hence our present condition.

Fearing for the health of a party
thus crowded and inhaling so much of an insoluble
foreign matter without intermission I
have to day reduced the number
of lights to four, two of which are
Stationary and communicating by tin
funnels with our chimney, so as
to carry away their soot.

Mr. Wilson relapsing I gave him a
potash ([sal waters]) warm bath, and
took his place at watch gave me
seven hours of continuous watch to keep at one beat.

Wonderful temperatures. Our mean
annual and monthly temperatures
startle me. Whatever views we may have
theoretically at the distribution of heat
I had expected that the proximity of
a large water area, but 35 miles S. W. by W.
of our position would elevate our mean
records. This supposition was strengthened
by the increased fall of snow. Clearly due
to the neighbour hood of this water.
I comment upon this elsewhere. I would
however call attention to our max and
minima not here quoted. Not [?]
itself has an extreme (Winter Extreme) of
greater cold.

[margin] [*Set this to Fahrenheit*]

The temperature of the year
1854 from Jany 1. to Dec 31t [?]
was ― 4°.56 F = 20°.31 Cent: !!