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Tuesday Jan. 30.

Still the remarkable temperatures,
the Bra.tr slowly equilbrating between
29. 20 & the old 30. 40. Snow
falling. Wind S.W. W. & N. yet
Therms at -10° & +3°. We long
anxiously for weather to enable our
meat party to start, but the darkness
is a barrier to travel. For the
past two days our sick have been entirely
out of meat. The Foxes seem to
avoid our traps. I gave Wilson one
raw meal from the masseter muscle which
adhered to an old bears head which
had been reserved as a specimen. Otherwise
no antiscorbutic - in one sense - has
been obtainable - for three days. Among
remedies which I oppose to the distemper, I have

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The light advanced so rapidly that we
can read our Therm at 10. A.M. in spite
of the snows and mists.
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Commenced making Sunday salts of
Iron. Among them the citrate and an
attempt at chloro hydrated tincture.
We have but one bottle of Brandy left.
My applying a half pint of it to the
tincture shows the high value I set upon
this noble Chalybeate].

My nose bled to day and I was struck
with the fluid [brick dusty poverty?] of
my blood. I use iron much among
my people as a one remedy it exceeds
all others. Potash for its own
action is well enough that for a one
drug, meat being not procurable give
me Iron.

Wed.
Jan. 31

The weather still most extraordinary.
The Wind has howled blowing No. 4