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Ships & ways of other days (1913)

Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 191

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st no whery =you mustnt complain —you know nothing aboutthese matters, ^ Malmsey. ^ Boiled nor roast. * My head will be cleft in three—my head is splitting. ^ Gere means tools. Lightly constructed cabins were knocked togetheron these Viking-like ships by the ships carpenter to accommodate… … T is curious to observe, as one readshistory, that many an invention,or a practical idea belonging tomodern times, has really existedfor century and century, thoughin an undeveloped condition. Themodern liquid compass is an ex-cellent instance. Ere men the virtue of the magnet found,The ocean…

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