The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 6Childs & Peterson, 1840 |
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... Ships across the Atlantic . SIR , [ Date uncertain . ] There is no question but in the case you mention of a ship's being taken up in a southern latitude , and set down in one some degrees more northerly , at the same moment , she would ...
... Ships across the Atlantic . SIR , [ Date uncertain . ] There is no question but in the case you mention of a ship's being taken up in a southern latitude , and set down in one some degrees more northerly , at the same moment , she would ...
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... ship's easting and westing ; but , upon reflecting that a general equation cannot serve for every ship , but must be dif- ferent according to the several moulds by which ships are built , and their being loaded , or in ballast , I ...
... ship's easting and westing ; but , upon reflecting that a general equation cannot serve for every ship , but must be dif- ferent according to the several moulds by which ships are built , and their being loaded , or in ballast , I ...
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... ship on the starboard bow with such violence , that it snapt off the bowsprit and fore - mast both at once , and blew the ship all along , ready to overset it ; but the ship did pres- ently right again , and the wind whirling round took ...
... ship on the starboard bow with such violence , that it snapt off the bowsprit and fore - mast both at once , and blew the ship all along , ready to overset it ; but the ship did pres- ently right again , and the wind whirling round took ...
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A Proposal for promoting Useful Knowledge among | 14 |
TO CADWALLADER COLDEN 4 November 1743 | 25 |
CADWALLADER COLDEN TO B FRANKLIN Dec 1744 | 32 |
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