Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 476
ss is in-closed in the top of a stand called a binnacle. InRitchies liquid compass the card floats on thesurface of a liquid composed of alcohol and water. Young folks may quite easily make a compassof this form. Magnetize an ordinary sewingneedle by rubbing it on a simple, horseshoemagnet. If a… … In 1597 William Barlowe says re-garding the compasses then in useby the East Indians: Instead of our cmnpas they use amagneticall needle of sixe yncheslong and longer, upon a pin in adish of white china earth filledwith water. In thebottom there-of they have two crossed lines forthe foure…
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