the [wind] blew very heard last night from N. and continued without intermission throughout the day it became could about twelve oclock— the canoes were driven by the violence of the waves against the shore and filled with water I therefore thought myself fortunate in having had them unladen on my arrival,— measured the hight of the bank in the point and found it 36 F[eet] 8 I[nches] above the level of the water at thime [the time?] which may with much propriety be deemed low water mark as neither
I yesterday measured the bank on the W. side of the