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Re: Patrick O'Brian series
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2014 Jan 14, 07:27 -0800
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2014 Jan 14, 07:27 -0800
Don Bray wrote: However, using the starting time from the Cannonade.net site and the relationship to Capt. Bligh's troubles in NSW, one can place the Leopard in the Bay of Biscay (pg 71) on 4 April 1811 (fix on Antares) and finally seeing Saturn clear as a bell (pg.274) at Desolation Island 0n 29 January 1812.
I am curious as to how you determined these dates.
Don Seltzer
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