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| Title | The New American Practical Navigator ... Exemplified in a Journal Kept from Boston to Madeira ...: With an Appendix ... |
| Author | Nathaniel Bowditch |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | E.M. Blunt, 1821 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | Jan 26, 2009 |
| Length | 600 pages |
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