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The new seaman's guide, and coaster's companion, [electronic resource] : Containing complete sailing...

The new seaman's guide, and coaster's companion, [electronic resource] : Containing complete sailing...

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The new seaman's guide, and coaster's companion, [electronic resource] : Containing complete sailing directions for ships, both outward and homeward bound, through the River Thames, and all its entrances, the British and Bristol Channels, on both coasts, including all the harbours; the coast of Wales; West Coasts of England and Scotland; the South coasts of Ireland; and the islands of Man, Scilly, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, &c. Also the East Coast of Great Britain, with the Orkney, Shetland, and Western Islands; the Coasts of Flanders, Holland, and Germany; the North Sea, Cattegat, Sound, Baltic, gulf of Finland, and northern navigation to the White Sea. And all the useful tables, viz. tables of the magnetic courses, and distances from place to place, for all the Coasts of Europe, and many of Africa and Asia: with the variations. A table of the distances by water, in miles, from London to the principal ports in Great Britain, Ireland, part of France, Flanders, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, throughout the Baltic and the Mediterrean. Copious tables of latitudes and longitudes, from the best and latest observations: and improved and corrected tide tables; to which are subjoined, easy methods of sinding the Epagt, the moon's age, and the day of new moon. A new and correct edition: improved and augmented by many important additions and observations from new surveys. By John Diston, M. Downie, master in the Royal Navy, and Alexander Ingram,teacher of Navigation and mathematics in Leith, and author of the newly much improved and corrected edition of Simson's Euclid; as also of the principles of geography, and of the corrected and enlarged edition of Hutton's arithmetic and key.

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The new seaman's guide, and coaster's companion, [electronic resource] : Containing complete sailing directions for ships, both outward and homeward bound, through the River Thames, and all its entrances, the British and Bristol Channels, on both coasts, including all the harbours; the coast of Wales; West Coasts of England and Scotland; the South coasts of Ireland; and the islands of Man, Scilly, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, &c. Also the East Coast of Great Britain, with the Orkney, Shetland, and Western Islands; the Coasts of Flanders, Holland, and Germany; the North Sea, Cattegat, Sound, Baltic, gulf of Finland, and northern navigation to the White Sea. And all the useful tables, viz. tables of the magnetic courses, and distances from place to place, for all the Coasts of Europe, and many of Africa and Asia: with the variations. A table of the distances by water, in miles, from London to the principal ports in Great Britain, Ireland, part of France, Flanders, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, throughout the Baltic and the Mediterrean. Copious tables of latitudes and longitudes, from the best and latest observations: and improved and corrected tide tables; to which are subjoined, easy methods of sinding the Epagt, the moon's age, and the day of new moon. A new and correct edition: improved and augmented by many important additions and observations from new surveys. By John Diston, M. Downie, master in the Royal Navy, and Alexander Ingram,teacher of Navigation and mathematics in Leith, and author of the newly much improved and corrected edition of Simson's Euclid; as also of the principles of geography, and of the corrected and enlarged edition of Hutton's arithmetic and key.

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Edinburgh : Printed by D. Sehaw and Son, Lawnmarket, for W. Coke, G. Peattie, and W. Reid, Booksellers, Leith, 1800.

Date

1800.

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74VKZJBAdxbM

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991018626849702626

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English

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v,[1],313,[1]p.,plate : ill. ; obl.4°.

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Edinburgh : Printed by D. Sehaw and Son, Lawnmarket, for W. Coke, G. Peattie, and W. Reid, Booksellers, Leith, 1800.

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Scotland

Date Published

1800.

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The new seaman's guide, and coaster's companion, [electronic resource] : Containing complete sailing directions for ships, both outward and homeward bound, through the River Thames, and all its entrances, the British and Bristol Channels, on both coasts, including all the harbours; the coast of Wales; West Coasts of England and Scotland; the South...

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Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland.

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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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991018626849702626