| Description | Daily meteorological observations, kept at at Okkak [Okak] in Labrador at the Moravian mission. Four observations per day, at 8.00am, 12.00 noon, 4.00pm and 8.00pm. Columns for day and hours of observations, thermometer readings, wind direction and strength, with general weather remarks.
The observations have an end-note: 'When it is under nul it has a dot before the figure thus .4. With regard to the wind we can't tell rightly. We lie in a Hole surrounded with Hills North, East & East. We know best as it is the Sea wind the rest is Land [illegible] But it here as neer as I could set it so'. This has been amended in a different hand: 'We know best as from these points we have the wind from the Sea, from the Land side we are covered...'.
With a title page [p.1]: 'Weather Observations at Okkak on the Coast of Terra Labrador from Augst. 1779 to July 31. 1780'. In a different hand 'Lat. 57=30' N.' |