A daring voyage across the Atlantic ocean, by two Americans, the brothers Andrews. The log of the voyage, with intr. and notes by dr. Macaulay |
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... course was from Sandy Hook bar to Cowes , no time allowance , and the first arrived to win . They started December 11th , 1866 , at one o'clock , the sun shining brightly , with blue sky , but the air keen and frosty . An im- mense ...
... course was from Sandy Hook bar to Cowes , no time allowance , and the first arrived to win . They started December 11th , 1866 , at one o'clock , the sun shining brightly , with blue sky , but the air keen and frosty . An im- mense ...
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... course . Accordingly , the most ter- rific that rage on the ocean have been known to be near its borders . Some of these great storms begin far away in the tropics , and travel northwards as cyclones , their force not always being spent ...
... course . Accordingly , the most ter- rific that rage on the ocean have been known to be near its borders . Some of these great storms begin far away in the tropics , and travel northwards as cyclones , their force not always being spent ...
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... course she would have taken , this could hardly have been the cause of her doom , although sometimes a real source cf danger . We read , for instance , in the month of April of this year , that on her way to New York the Belgian steamer ...
... course she would have taken , this could hardly have been the cause of her doom , although sometimes a real source cf danger . We read , for instance , in the month of April of this year , that on her way to New York the Belgian steamer ...
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... course the steamer's head was turned to the southward , and the ice was left behind . A heavy gale was met on the 20th , and on the 23rd a wooden vessel about 70 ft . long was passed floating bottom up . It is a terrible fact , which ...
... course the steamer's head was turned to the southward , and the ice was left behind . A heavy gale was met on the 20th , and on the 23rd a wooden vessel about 70 ft . long was passed floating bottom up . It is a terrible fact , which ...
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... course of being painted , and therefore the look - outs , instead of taking their customary places upon the " whale - back , " were relegated to the " skid bridge " just behind it . The Liverpool stipendiary magistrate , assisted by ...
... course of being painted , and therefore the look - outs , instead of taking their customary places upon the " whale - back , " were relegated to the " skid bridge " just behind it . The Liverpool stipendiary magistrate , assisted by ...
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