A New and Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation: Containing All Necessary Instructions for Keeping a Ship's Reckoning at Sea, with the Most Approved Methods of Ascertaining the Latitude ... and the Longitude ... Including a Journal of a Voyage from London to Madeira ... To which is Added, a New and Correct Set of Tables ... |
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| Title | A New and Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation: Containing All Necessary Instructions for Keeping a Ship's Reckoning at Sea, with the Most Approved Methods of Ascertaining the Latitude ... and the Longitude ... Including a Journal of a Voyage from London to Madeira ... To which is Added, a ... |
| Author | John William Norie |
| Publisher | author and for William Heather, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Aug 19, 2009 |
| Length | 556 pages |
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