The seaman's daily assistant, being a short, easy, and plain method of keeping a journal at sea; in which are contained, rules, shewing how the allowances for lee-way, variation, heave of the sea, set of currents, &c. are to be made, and to correct the dead-reckoning by an observation, in all cases: and also all the tables that are any ways necessary for the seaman's use in keeping a journal. By Thomas Haselden, late teacher of the mathematics in the Royal Navy.
- Haselden, Thomas, -1740.
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- M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]
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[Philadelphia] : London, printed: Philadelphia, re-printed and sold by J. Crukshank, in Market-Street, M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]
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[8],160p. ; 80.
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