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[Identification of item], in the Charles H. Bell Log, #2962, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Atlantic Coast (U.S.)--Description and travel.
• Baltic Sea--Description and travel.
• Bell, Charles H., 1798-1875.
• Byron, George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824.
• Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820.
• Logbooks--History--19th century.
• Mediterranean Region--Description and travel.
• Midshipmen--History--19th century.
• Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)--Description and travel.
• United States--History--War of 1812--Naval operations.
• United States. Navy--Sea life--History--19th century.

MICROFILM ONLY. Brief intermittent entries by Bell of New York, later rear admiral, United States Navy, of places visited while a midshipman on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812 and under Stephen Decatur in the Mediterranean; and notes on other voyages along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., and in the Baltic and the Mediterranean. A description of Lord Byron, May 1822, is included.