Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 658
e furnished him when sheshowed him tne use of the compass, supplied him with the chronometer,and placed the sextant in his hands. How anxiously must the seamanwho has been prevented by unfavourable skies from ascertaining his exactposition, and has been trusting to the log and the compass to work…
Inventions
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