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  <dc:title>Letter from John Fitch to Sir Joseph Banks</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Sends Banks an instrument which furnishes "an easy and natural way of keeping a ship's reckoning at sea".  Also includes a sketch of a model which he is of opinion would be a great improvement to the Waterworks at London Bridge.

With draft reply by Banks that he will place Fitch's letter before the Board of Longitude.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>23 December 1793</dc:date>
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