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Re: Voyaging the traditional way
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2004 Oct 31, 21:50 -0500
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2004 Oct 31, 21:50 -0500
George Huxtable wrote: > The tallow, by the way, was to sample the "quality of the bottom", whether > it was mud, sand, ooze, or gravel, and the type of shells within it. A > navigator would compare what came up with his own experience of that area, > and with the annotations on the chart. This information was regarded as > particularly valuable in the Western approaches to the English channel. Also in New England it was considered the most reliable method of navigation, as this story testifies: http://www.hprinz.us/mudtasting/ The story appeared originally in a "Sailor's Magazine of November 1848", but I copied it from Roger Duncan, Paul W. Fenn, W. Wallace Fenn and John p. Ware, "The Cruising Guide to the New England Coast", Norton &Company, 1995 (without permission. I hope they don't mind). There are thre jpg files, named 1.jpg, 2. jpg and 3. jpg, which are from pages 357 - 359 of said book. Enjoy Herbert Prinz
