Composition Book and Workbook of Aberdeen Child, for Calculating Longitude and Latitude from Visual Sightings Made During Voyages

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Undated
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Aberdeen Child
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Schooner Edwin R. Emerson; Captain A.H. Child, owner; Trip to Cardenas from Mobile; Sugar; Printed regulations concerning Marine Hospital Services; Voyage to Aspinwall; Listings of latitudes, longitudes and weather descriptions; Course to Turks; Windward passage; Cape Nicola Mole; Hayti; Porto Bello; Course to Manzanilla; Voyage to Roncador; Wilmington N.C.; Course to Serrana Bank; Course to Cape San Antonio; Crossing of the Mosquito Bank; Course to Havana; Schooner C. Gregory; Voyage from Mexico for New York; Gulf Stream; Smithville; Course to Sandy Hook; Voyage from Key West and Mobile; Course to Abaco; Alligator Reef; Tortuga; Schooner Sarah F. Bird; Voyage from New York to New Orleans; Pensacola; Course to Cardenas; Mantanzes, Cuba; Voyage to Boston; Cay Diano; Del Padre; Brig Hattie M. Barr; Voyage to New York; Captain McDaniel; Cape Canaveral; Albert Clayton Scull; Frying Pan; M Rattlesnake; Hatteras; Voyage to Charleston; Tabulation of miles and degrees
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This is a composition book, 8¼” wide x 7⅛” high x ½“ thick. This was kept by Aberdeen Child as a workbook for calculating longitude and latitude from visual sightings made during voyages. Only pertinent information has been extracted, and all the individual caluculations have been ignored
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