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and Changes of Level in Lake Superior. 7 
Nearly swamped the whale boat, in ogee in the most sheltered 
place that could be found on that coast. Wind continued all day 
till night, when it became calm. 
17. Pleasant day; wind west “tp new. A, Embarked and 
went to the Cross, near Gratiots River. 
18, 19. Pleasant days; wind wok, Went to Eagle Harbor. 
1 el > thunder-storm evening of 19th. ey wind from north 
night. 
20. Wind n. 8. Lake a sheet of om, and very heavy sea. 
21. Pleasant ; wind not noted.’ 
22. Pleasant; calm in morning. mbatiesél and went to bm 
ate Harbor. Squalls from every naa in afternoon. 
looked very threatening, and water oscillated repeatedly a Area 
level every half hour, and sometimes more frequently, at 24 
Harbor. Blew a gale from the north and n.w. through the n night 
23. 
vey cross, chopped sea. Squall clouds in various directions. 
meds but nearly a several times, from the cross seas. 
vy squall came suddenly from n.w. "Run into a little boat 
harbor before it struck us. In a moment the lake was a sheet 
of foam, and the ~iaees continued blow Eg. heavily fromm the ww. 
all day a es night. 
24. Pleasant and cal but lake too tongh to pass indies 
on the deeper parts of the reef. _ In afternoon, embarked and went 
to Copper Barber, Mar blasts of warm air a9 off the lard, 
with intervals of 
» 25, No note HP ge wea calles 
26. Storm; heavy surf on the shore from n.x. 
27. Storm : heavy a on — shore ; wind n.w. 
28. Storm ; N.E. mist 
29. Pleasant day ; Pad 1 ri noted. 
30. Pleasant day; wind w.x.w. 6; heavy surf on the shore. 
Oct. 1. Stormy day; wind from east, and ae round to 
south in the afternoon, =~ 
2. Pleasant calm 
_ 3. Cold stormy day. | tapered 0 on Peeara steamer Julia Palm- 
er, for a voyage along the Canadian shore. 
4. Sailed from Copper Harbor. Pleasant; wind inodérate 
from the west in the forenoon, freshened too much for the steam= 
et to head it in the afternoon, and went into Siskowit Bay and 
anchored. Galm/in the evening. This was the first voyage of 
a steamboat on the north coast of the lake, where there are many 
unexplored reefs and islands. 
5. Sailed from Siskowit Bay at 7 a.m. Calm, but “= = 
sont 7 Ate W.8.W., and freshened seer a tll 3 pan, whentits fore 
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