The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 206
T the termination of the last board, it can be seen by-measuring tho three lines of our zig-zag route that we-QJ&~ have passed over three-quarters of a mile of ground,but that our direcb progress against the wind is only a trifle advantage of the flowing tide following us in a diagonaldirection… … SIXTEEN-FEET BOAT WITH SINGLE WORKING LTTG. over a half a mile. ■ This progress, however, may be consideredvery satisfactory for a small boat, but could not have beenaccomplished without the aid of the favouring tide. TJnaer present circumstances we have, on account of the ad-verse wind, been…
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