Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 332
I have known one eveningspapers to bring accounts of the loss o{te?i of thesevessels in a furious gale off the Grand Banks. Referring again to the figure marked InMiddle Latitudes, we see that the halfof the storm to the ri^ht of the arrow is so the ship must be hove to on the starboardtack, which… … marked Danger-ous Semicircle,and that to theleft Navigable(or Safe) Semi-circle, and sail-ors must manoeu- DIAGRAM 3. (from THE PILOT CHART.) VCr tO kCCp In tllC latter always. To learn which half they are in,they watch the successive shifts of wind. Ifto the right, they know they are on the…
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