The Seaman's Daily Assistant: Containing Plane, Traverse, Parallel, Middle Latitude, and Mercator's Sailings ... |
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| Title | The Seaman's Daily Assistant: Containing Plane, Traverse, Parallel, Middle Latitude, and Mercator's Sailings ... |
| Contributors | John Robertson, Andrew Mackay, John Hamilton Moore, John William Norie |
| Publisher | W. Elliot, 1810 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jan 11, 2010 |
| Length | 60 pages |
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