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 232
muft meafure the headdiameters FA, DC, and take a mean of theirmeafures when they differ ; meafure alfo the di-ameter EB at the bung, (taking the meafurewithin the caflc) ; then meafure the length of thecalk, making due allowance for the thicknefs ofthe heads. Having thefe dimenfions you… … 318 GAUGING. be the mean diameter; multiply this by itfelfand by the length of the, calk, and divide the produdr. by 294.12 for wine gallons, by 359.05 fqtfbeer gallons, and by 2738 for bufhels. The quantity .62 is generally ufed by gaugers in 1 finding the mean di-ameter of a cafk ; but if the…
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