ABSTRACT the Mean Temperature for each Day during the Voyage along the Sea Coast west of the Mackenzie, and on the return to Bear Lake.
| 1826. Date. | Daily Mean | Wind and Weather. | Situation. |
| Aug. | ° | ||
| 16 | 35.0 | ENE,fresh, foggy | Return Reef, lat. 70° 26' N. lg. 148° 52' W. |
| 17 | 37.4 | NE,gale, very foggy | |
| 18 | 36.2 | NE, strong, clear | |
| 19 | 36.4 | NE, strong, foggy | Foggy Island. |
| 20 | 36.4 | NE, fresh, foggy | |
| 21 | 35.7 | NNE, North, moderate, clear | Between Foggy Island & the Mouth of the Mackenzie, lat. 70° 16' and 68° 53' N. lon. 147° 38' and 136° 19' W. |
| 22 | 37.6 | North, NE, light, clear | |
| 23 | 41.0 | Calm, clear | |
| 24 | 39.4 | Calm, clear, foggy in the night | |
| 25 | 41.2 | Calm, fog, NE,light, ESE, strong | |
| 26 | 39.6 | WNW, NW, heavy gale, snow, sleet | |
| 27 | 39.8 | Calm,ESE, light, clear | |
| 28 | 43.0 | SW, strong, clear | |
| 29 | 52.5 | SSW, heavy gale | |
| 30 | 45.6 | NW, Heavy gale, rain | Mackenzie River. |
| 31 | 42.4 | Calm, SW,gloomy | |
| Mean | 40.85 | ||
Sept. | |||
| 1 | 38.3 | NW, gale, snow | Mackenzie River. |
| 2 | 38.6 | NW,strong, clear | |
| 3 | 41.1 | Calm, moderate, SE, clear | |
| 4 | 41.3 | SE, NW, moderate,clear | |
| 5 | 45.9 | SE, light, clear | |
| 6 | 51.0 | Variable, light, clear | |
| 7 | 44.8 | SE, light,NW, strong | |
| 8 | 41.0 | NW, strong, snow | |
| 9 | 39.3 | East, moderate, clear | |
| 10 | 45.8 | SE,light, clear | |
| 11 | 45.8 | NW, moderate rain | |
| 12 | 37.3 | NW, moderate, gloomy | |
| 13 | 37.2 | Calm, SE, light, clear | |
| 14 | 37.9 | ESE, moderate, clear | |
| 15 | 42.7 | Calm, moderate, fresh, gloomy | |
| 16 | 44.5 | Variable, light, gloomy | |
| 17 | 39.6 | Variable, moderate, rain | |
| 18 | 29.4 | NW, fresh, gloomy | |
| 19 | 24.6 | NW, moderate, gloomy | |
| 20 | 29.2 | ESE, fresh, clear | |
| 21 | 31.1 | ENE, fresh, clear | Fort Franklin. |
| Mean | 39.22 |
NOTE.—The thermometer used in this register, was compared with those in use at Fort Franklin during ten days after our return, and found to coincide with them.
FOOTNOTES:
[3] I have recently learned, by letter from Captain Beechey, that the barge turned back on the 25th of August, having been several days beset by the ice. He likewise informs me, that the summer of 1827 was so unfavourable for the navigation of the northern coast of America, that the Blossom did not reach so high a latitude as in the preceding year; nor could his boat get so far to the east of Icy Cape, by one hundred miles. The natives, he says, were numerous, and, in some instances, ill-disposed.