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Plate 1.

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NEW AMERICAN

PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR:

BEING AN

EPITOME OF NAVIGATION;

CONTAINING ALL THE TABLES NECESSARY TO BE SED WITH THE

NAUTICAL ALMANAC,

IN DETERMINING

THE LATITUDE, AND THE LONGITUDE

BY

LUNAR OBSERVATIONS:

AND

KEEPING A COMPLETE RECKONING AT SEA:

ILLUSTRATED BY

PROPER RULES AND EXAMPLES:

THE WHOLE EXEMPLIFIED IN A JOURNAL,
KEPT FROM BOSTON TO MADEIRA,

IN WHICH ALL THE RULES OF NAVIGATION ARE INTRODUCED.

ALSO,

THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE USUAL RULES OF TRIGONOMETRY:

PROBLEMS

IN MENSURATION, SURVEYING AND GAUGING :

DICTIONARY OF SEA-TERMS:

AND THE MANNER OF

PERFORMING THE MOST USEFUL EVOLUTIONS AT SEA.

WITH AN

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

METHODS OF CALCULATING ECLIPSES OF THE SUN AND MOON, AND OCCULTATIONS OF THE
FIXED STARS: RULES FOR FINDING THE LONGITUDE OF A PLACE BY OBSERVATIONS
OF ECLIPSES OR OCCULTATIONS: AND A NEW METHOD FOR FINDING THE
LATITUDE BY TWO ALTITUDES.

BY NATHANIEL ROWDITCH, LL. D.

Fellow of the Royal Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; of the American Philosophical Society,
held at Philadelphia: of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; of the Connecticut Academy
of Arts and Sciences; of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York, &c.

SIXTH STEREOTYPE EDITION.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY EDMUND M. BLUNT, PROPRIETOR,

AND AUTHOR OF THE AMERICAN COAST PILOT,

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