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RefNoL&P/7/37
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Track of HMS Lion from Davis's Straits to Labrador' by Richard Pickersgill
Date1778
DescriptionSubject: Navigation

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Track of His Majesty's armed brig Lion from England to Davis's Streights and Labrador, with observations for determining the longitude by Sun and Moon and error of common reckoning; also the variation of the compass and dip of the needle, as observed during the said voyage in 1776'

Read 30 April 1778
Extent7p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1778.0051
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