Syracuse

The new seaman's guide and coaster's companion : containing, in Part I. Complete sailing-directions for ships, both outward and homeward bound, through the river Thames and all its entrances ; the British and Bristol Channels, on both casts, including all the Harbours ; the coast of Wales ; West coast of England to Liverpool ; the South coast of Ireland ; and the islands of Scilly, Guernsey, Jersey, Aldernay, &c. Part II. For the Northern navigation : comprising the east coast of Great Britain, with the Orkney and Shetland islands ; the coast of Flanders, Holland and Germany ; the North Sea, Kattegat, Sound, Belt, Baltic, Gulf of Finland, and northern navigation to the White Sea. Part III. A new and accurate table of magnetic bearings, of courses, and distances, from place to place, for the different coasts of Europe, with the variations of the Needle : also, a new table of the distances, by water, in nautic miles, from London to the principal ports of Great Britain, Ireland, the continents of Europe and America, the west Indies, &c. To wich are subjoined copious tables of latitudes and longitudes, from the best and latest observations ; improved abd corrected tide-tables ; the methods of finding the Moon's age, the day of new moon, the time of high water, and the latitude by Meridional observation. Also, new tables of the sun's declination, from 1806 to 1821. Improved from the original woks of Mr. John Chandler, late of Oxford, pilot ; Mr. Murdo Downie, master in the Royal Navy ; Mr. George Eunson, of Orkney, pilot ; Mr. Murdoch M'Kenzie ; Mr. J. Diston, pilot ; and many other experienced masters and pilots. Augmented by many important observations from the surveys of Admiral Knight ; of Mr. Fotheringhame, Mr. George Morrison, Mr. T. Stokes, and other masters, of the Royal Navy. Including, likewise, all recent alterations made by order of the different corporations of Trinity-House, &c., to the present time. The fifteenth edition of the work, and the fisrt of the new arrangement.

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Edité par J. G. Barnard, printer, 57, Snow-Hill.. London : printed for P. Mason, at Steel's Navigation-Warehouse, little Tower-Hill. 1806. - 1806

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