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Lunars: A Literary Reference
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Feb 23, 13:33 EST
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Feb 23, 13:33 EST
From "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper:
"Both Talcott and myself did very well with the lunars, it is true;
but there was no chance to observe, and even lunars soon get out of their
reckoning among currents and tides."
He's possibly refering to the practice of keeping a separate lunar-based
dead reckoning. Either that or he just didn't know any better. Lunars
by themselves, of course, don't "get out" as he puts it.
The complete book is online at http://www.james-fenimore-cooper.info/afloat.
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42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
