The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, 1. köideBrown, Son and Ferguson, 1832 |
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... land ; and when by any unforeseen accident this became invisible , the motions of circumpolar stars , and the flight of birds , naturally directed towards the shore , served as guides to the bewildered mariner . The configuration of ...
... land ; and when by any unforeseen accident this became invisible , the motions of circumpolar stars , and the flight of birds , naturally directed towards the shore , served as guides to the bewildered mariner . The configuration of ...
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... land , differing only from him in expedition . With the progress of these auxiliaries , Hydrography continued improving , but not to that extent that it should have done . This delay arose from a fear of spreading the knowledge of ...
... land , differing only from him in expedition . With the progress of these auxiliaries , Hydrography continued improving , but not to that extent that it should have done . This delay arose from a fear of spreading the knowledge of ...
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... land is about two hundred feet , and Captain Dickinson imagined , that he could stretch cables across the cove from one height to the other ; but the immense span which this required rendered it impossible , and he determined on ...
... land is about two hundred feet , and Captain Dickinson imagined , that he could stretch cables across the cove from one height to the other ; but the immense span which this required rendered it impossible , and he determined on ...
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... land . Although these may be said to have termi- nated unsuccessfully , as far as the actual passage is concerned , yet sufficient information has been gained from them to authorize the conclusion , that at some auspicious period it ...
... land . Although these may be said to have termi- nated unsuccessfully , as far as the actual passage is concerned , yet sufficient information has been gained from them to authorize the conclusion , that at some auspicious period it ...
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... Land . Compiled from Documents in the Hydrographic Office . Admi- ralty . London . 1830 . A work of this description on Australia was much wanted ; and more so lately , as the number of vessels , which annually frequent that distant ...
... Land . Compiled from Documents in the Hydrographic Office . Admi- ralty . London . 1830 . A work of this description on Australia was much wanted ; and more so lately , as the number of vessels , which annually frequent that distant ...
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Page 403 - Each of us thought the other weaker in intellect than himself, and more in need of advice and assistance.
Page 401 - Had my own life alone been threatened, I would not have purchased it by such a measure ; but I considered myself as intrusted also with the protection of Hepburn's, a man, who, by his humane attentions and devotedness, had so endeared himself to me, that I felt more anxiety for his safety than for my own.
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Page 400 - Michel were speaking to each other in an elevated angry tone ; that Mr. Hood being seated at the fire-side, was hid from him by intervening willows, but that on hearing the report he looked up, and saw Michel rising up from before the tent-door, or just behind where Mr. Hood was seated, and then going into the tent. Thinking that the gun had been discharged for the purpose of cleaning it, he did not go to the fire at first ; and when Michel called to him that Mr. Hood was dead, a considerable time...
Page 236 - Johnnies, he had been so long kept from us. At eight o'clock in the evening it began to moderate, and by midnight we succeeded in getting a boat on board of the prize, after a run of between three and four hundred miles. Such is the scale of nautical sport ! And where, I now beg to ask, is the fox...
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