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The sea-mans practice : containing a fundmental probleme in navigation experimentally verified, namely, touching the compass of the earth and sea, and the quantity of a degree in our English measure : also an exact method or form of keeping a reckoning at sea ... : with certain tables and other rules useful in navigation ... /

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Main Author:	Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for William Fisher, bookseller ... and Eliza Hurlock ..., 1676.
Edition:	The twelfth edition.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Navigation > Early works to 1800.
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