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| Title | The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land: To which are Added, Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place, and Variation of the Compass; with New Tables. By Andrew Mackay, ... Part 207 of The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land: To which are Added, Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place, and Variation of the Compass; with New Tables. By Andrew Mackay, Andrew Mackay |
| Author | Andrew Mackay |
| Publisher | J. Sewell, P. Elmsly, and J. Evans, 1793 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jun 19, 2008 |
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