Navigation - Early works to 1800
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Thoughts on a late proposal for piloting ships at all seasons through Channel Creek , Instead of the Old Passage by the Braces, into Hoogly River.
Date: 1782- E-books
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Navigation new modell'd Or, A treatise of geometrical, trigonometrical, arithmetical, instrumental, and practical navigation. Teaching how to keep a reckoning, both in latitude and longitude, without tables or instruments, by a new method never yet published: illustrated with practical examples of keeping a journal, and correcting it by an observation; with a new way of finding the variation, and time of high-water at any known port. Together with all necessary tables, and the projection of the sphere orthographic and stereographick. Also current sailing, with other pleasant questions, and how to correct the longitude by a solar observation. The fourth edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson, author of the London accomptant, trigonometry improv'd, and other mathematical treatises, revised and corrected by the author.
Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- E-books
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Clark, mayor. A common council holden in the chamber of the Guildhall of the city of London, on Thursday, the 20th day of January, 1785, and in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third, King of Great Britain, &c. ..
Corporation of London (England). Court of Common Council.Date: 1785]- E-books
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The report of Mess. John Grundy, Langley Edwards, and John Smeaton, engineers, concerning the present ruinous state and condition, of the River Witham , and the Navigation thereof, from the city of Lincoln, thro' Boston, to it's outfall into the sea ; And of the Fen Lands on both Sides the said River. Together with proposals and schemes for restoring, Improving, and Preserving the said river and Navigation, And also for effecting the Drainage of the said Fen Lands. To which is annexed a plan, and proper estimates of the Expences in performing the several Works recommended for those Purposes.
Date: [1761?]- E-books
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A rule, order, or bye law, to be observed and kept by the bargemasters, ... concerned in the navigating ... any barge, boat, or vessel, on the rivers Thames and Isis, ... ordered at a general meeting of the Commissioners, ..
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: 1786]