The Elements of Navigation: Containing the Theory and Practice; With All the Necessary Tables; To Which Is Added, a Treatise of Marine Fortification; . and the Gentlemen of the Navy, in Two

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The Maritime parts of this worh, contained in the 71th, viith, and lyth hooks, are delivered in a manner fomewhat dzfiheizt from that'of other writers on this fuhjett 1who', for the mo/t. Part; copying from one another, may he, perhaps one rtafon why the art of Nauigation has heen fo little improved within the la]? I 56 years; for excepting what Norwood and Halley have done, the art feems much in the fame fiate iri which Wright left it However, I apprehend that the proper judges will, from the method I have tahen, find fome few improvements, if not in the art itjél at lead in the manner of communicating it to, learners.

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