The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation, containing all the tables necessary ... (1802)
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838, Lee, Marvin, former owner. DSI, Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828 DSI, Burndy Library, donor. DSI · [Salem] : Printed at Newburyport, Mass., 1802, by Edmund M. Blunt, for Cushing and Appleton, Salem : Sold by every book-seller, ship- chandler, and mathematical-instrument-maker in the United States and West Indies · leaf 108
the latitude of 420 5 N. whoie departure from the meridianof Mount-Defert Rock is 94 miles weft ; but by reafon of contrary windsfhe is obliged to fail on the following courfes, viz. South 10 miles, W.S.W25 miles, S.W. 30 miles, and Weft 20 miles. Required the bearing ancldiihtnee of the two… … VCJA. CC»a fji £ D h $5 TRAVERSE SAILING. Let C reprefent Mount-Defert Rock, draw the meridian CF, whiciitaake equal to 107 miles the difference of latitude between the two places 5and perpendicular thereto the line FE equal to the departure 94 miles, thenis E the place of Cape-Cod. With the chord…
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