 | Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...the ship's course and its situation in it at a determinate moment, and having ascertained this within from five to ten miles, ran the rest of the way by...long voyages, where the moon is the only sure guide. " We steered," says Capt. Hall, " towards Rio de Janeiro for some days after taking the lunars above... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1831 - 658 pages
...ship's course, and its situation in it at a determinate moment, and having ascertained this within from five to ten miles, ran the rest of the way by...compendious methods, 'known to navigators', which can lie safety employed for short trips between one known point and another, but which cannot be trusted... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...the ship's course and its situation in it at a determinate moment, and having ascertained this within from five to ten miles, ran the rest of the way by...and compendious methods, known to navigators, which qan be safely employed for short trips between one known point and another, but which cannot be trusted... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...the ship's course and its situation in it at a determinate moment, and having ascertained this within from five to ten miles, ran the rest of the way by those more read};: and compendious methods, known to navigators, which can be safely employed for short trips... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pages
...course, and its silualion in it, at a determinate moment— and having ascertained tins within from rive to ten miles, ran the rest of the way by those more...known to navigators, which can be safely employed for shoit trips, between one known point and another, but cannot be trusted in I'm;: voyages, where the... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Ethics - 1833 - 322 pages
...ship's course, and its situation in it at a determinate moment, and having ascertained this within from five to ten miles, ran the rest of the way by...cannot be trusted in long voyages, where the moon is their only guide. The rest of the tale we are enabled by his kindness to state in his own words : —... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Human beings - 1833 - 336 pages
...ship's course, and its situation in it at a determinate moment, and having ascertained this within from five to ten miles, ran the rest of the way by...between one known point and another, but which cannot be trus^d in long voyages, where the moon is their only guide. The rest of the tale we are enabled by... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Human beings - 1833 - 316 pages
...determinate moment, and having ascertained this within from five to ten miles, ran the rest of thtway by those more ready and compendious methods, known...cannot be trusted in. long voyages, where the moon is their only guide. The rest of the tale we are enabled by his kindness to state in his own words : —... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Human beings - 1833 - 348 pages
...determinate moment, and having ascertained this within from five to ten miles, ran the rest of the v by those more ready and compendious methods, known to navigators, which can '.fely employed for short trips between one known point and another, but which it be trusted in long... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Human beings - 1834 - 360 pages
...ship's course, and its situation in it at a determinate moment, and having ascertained this within from five to ten miles, ran the rest of the way by those more ready and corn pendious methods, known to navigators, which can be safely employed for short trips Uettyeen one... | |
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Horn. Arrived within a week's sail of Rio, he set seriously about determining, by lunar observations, the precise line of the ship's course, and its situation in it at a determinate moment, and having ascertained this within from five to ten miles, ran... 
